Runner

"Time to change is up - it is "imperative" our Offices on the front line be provided all assistance with their care and well-being when attending "horrendous" cases".

Sorry for typo error in above "Offices" should have been "officers".

However, I do wish to include our Ambulance Officers, and any other Government Agency's involvement in response to an "alert of harm or distress".

We all expect "this is their job" - yes it is, however their instances whereby said Officer will be called to a "baby death".

Some Officers I have spoken to have left the Police Department due to attending a "baby's death".

However, we as a society, don't take into consideration the personal toll on our serving members - when attending these cases.

We just assume - oh - it's their job - get over it.

Those who hold these opinions - should get in touch with their relative community Police Officer/s and just "talk"....you will be surprised at how much they "hold in", and how much - over in time - they will reveal to you.

They all have empathy - just like you and I. Just because they do a job with a "badge" doesn't mean - they don't have any empathy.

And that's where the problem lies - some are "unable" to voice their concerns to "those in charge" due to they being perceived as "weak".

So what has changed in Policing ethos - obviously nothing.

Hi Saints

You seem to talk from personal experience. I actually trained as a Prison Officer in the early 1980's at Goulburn. I can't disagree with anything you say. I do know however think often things turn to poison when lawyers get involved. I feel somewhat sickened when I see mobs like Blackburn and Slater and Gordon calling for class actions. They usually sit in officers with water views dreaming up how to scam. Look at the money they make from the taxpayers supporting illegal immigrants, I have a little personal experience with these leeches. I would much prefer Government did their job and looked after our emergency workers. I know they have a high rate of suicide with what they put up with.

A National Service can get young people ready for such jobs ! All those blood sports they play all day long in their living rooms are more than adequate exposure.

The logical answer is no. Get ambulance chasing lawyers involved, logic then goes out the door.

A problem seems to be that many people choosing to work in the field of rescue or policing do not understand what they are letting themselves in for.

A similar argument seeking CTP compensation could be made for doctors who carry out emergency surgery - should they be liable to be financially compensated by a stabbing victim's insurers?

A partial way to reduce the possibility of claims by professional rescuers may lie in better education about the scope of the job before the individual makes the decision to follow that career path.

Example of what some said, no training.

Carer who was filmed hitting elderly patient with shoe wins appeal

A Sydney aged care worker, who has won his sentence appeal for hitting an elderly man with a shoe, had no training on how to care for dementia patients.

Prakash Paudyal had been single-handedly caring for 16 patients and while his actions “cannot be excused”, both he and the victim were “victims of the system”, his lawyer told the District Court on Thursday.

The 36-year-old was jailed in January for eight months, with a non-parole period of four months.

Paudyal had pleaded guilty to assaulting an 82-year-old man between August 26 and September 8 in 2018, while he was working at the Bupa Seaforth facility in the city’s northern beaches.

Judge Helen Symes allowed his appeal and instead imposed an eight-month intensive correction order which includes community service.

Describing the circumstances of the two men as “equally tragic,” she said while not blaming the facility, she wondered why it only required one person to care for the victim.

“This was definitely a two person job at least,” she said, after she watched footage caught on a hidden camera in the victim’s room.

Paudyal’s barrister Malcolm Ramage QC said his client was “never given any training in how to handle dementia patients, in particular those who have aspects of violence or irrational reactions.”

Paudyal, who has Crohn’s disease, expressed his remorse in a letter to the victim’s daughter Ayda Celine, although she would not read it, the barrister said.

Ms Celine had installed the secret camera after becoming concerned about bruises on her father’s body.

Mr Ramage said Paudyal had been working two jobs at the time.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/carer-filmed-hitting-elderly-patient-shoe-wins-appeal-194423717.html