What Should The Punishment Be For Louts That Attack Emergency Services Personnel?

Question

Day after day we hear about fire crews and ambulance drivers coming under attack from yobs when they attend incidents, or deliberately staged hoax calls, and doctors and nurses being violently attacked in hosptials and A&E. What would be a fair punishment for anyone caught taking part in these attacks? Are we too soft?

Answer 1

these people are pathetic.

they moan and groan about the emergency services and "The Establishment" complain about their civil rights, use violence, aggression, foul language as often as buttering toast and yet they are the first ones to demand help and support when they are in trouble.
i can understand (although i don't agree ) that some people find the police confrontational and i know that the police see violence every day, but to attack ANYONE working in the public sector, who is there to defend, support, rescue and help the general public is cowardly.

as for attacking the ambulance crews, nurses and doctors......well that has got to be the most outrageously stupid, ignorant, pathetically moronic act ever.

it will never happen, as usual the "rights"(?????) of these people are seen as important(??) but if i had my way, the persistent offenders would be refused medical treatment or support from any emergency worker unless they were dying.

Answer 2

There should be a special Army Regiment just for louts, people who continue to cause trouble or are on the dole for longer than a year with no reasonable attempts to find a job should be thrown in and shipped off to afghanistan to run across open ground to lure out the snipers so the real soldiers can take them out without being killed.

Answer 3

I am not sure, but Elvis if this makes you feel any better, a couple of years ago, I was approached by the LFB to help them re-write and deliver a school based programme in our borough looking at prevention work on exactly this issue.

This is probably the piece of work I am most proud of to date (I even recieved an honorarium payment from my local authority for the countless hours of overtime I put into this and No I do not care if I sound like I am blowing my own trumpet!)

The programme was and still is delievered to years 6 and 7 in all schools in my borough by my team (as I am at uni presently) and 3 very dedicated members of LFB staff.

The project is a MASSIVE success, the children are usually stunned when faced with the consequences of things such as hoax calling - the format we use is as hard hitting as it can be for the age group it is aimed at.

It consists of a 1 hour lesson incorporating a Quiz about anti-social and offending behaviour to challenge their perceptions, a video about a hoax call resulting in a death from an RTA and a drama excercise where the young people do a Youth Court scene and sentence the hoax callers.

The statistics for our borough for malicious fires, hoax calls and attacks on the emergency services have gone down massively which is how we have secured funding from the community safety partnership among other places to continue to run the programme.

However this programme would fail if it were not for the dedication and hard work of a few staff that are undertaking a MASSIVE task to address this issue.

Answer 4

I think you would be surprised how well received a call would be to the local fire department. Telling them the story of what has moved you to express thanks will go along way for them. Also, writing a short note or e-mail and sending it to the firehouse in that area or the city fire department. This is not something that happens all of the time for them and it is ALWAYS well received and sincerely appreciated. Actually, I think that the act of saying "thank you" is underestimated by many people and it is the best way to reinforce the good in people and their work.

Answer 5

Yes we are too soft. They should be publicly punished and humiliated! Put into the stocks as in days of old or bring back the birch. All these new softly softly approaches are death to law and order and civilisation!

Answer 6

Yes we are too soft.

The louts should be given a sentence of at least 4 years (and I mean 4 years not less), and their sentence should include hard work and be very very strict.

It might make them think before commtting another act.

Years ago the word 'Borstal' was a scary word, it's about time it was made to be scary again.

Answer 7

A criminal record? The Birch? National Service?

We have become too politically correct in this country over the past ten years. It now seems politicians will not take a firm stance - maybe too comfortable on their own particular gravy train?

Regards Jo.
www.save-money-guide.com

Answer 8

I don't agree with capital/corporal punishment and jail has never successfully changed a bad person into a good person. I think banishment is a good idea. Send them off to fend for themselves on a deserted island, the way they used to send convicts to Australia.

Perhaps someday we could banish convicts to space stations on earth orbit, nah, too expensive. Put them to work on book-keeping. The prisons are overcrowded, put them under house arrest.

Answer 9

nail them by the nuts to a tree stump, set fire to the tree stump and give them a phone which is only tuned into the emergency services and other dickheads who attack the services, It would be quite interesting to see what he would say when he is about to be engulfed in flames but the services wont go near him because of the attackers

Answer 10

I find this unbelieveable. Would they attack these people if it was their family they were saving??? No punishment is good enough because they are kids they would probably be sent on holiday - I could rant about this for hours. I wish they would lock them up and make them really suffer.