Re: Top UK police chief is found dead
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Originally Posted by SMHarman
(Post 34506148)
You cannot just go removing anyone from any post because of something they have said. There are these boring things called employment laws you need to consider. Just because someone is depressed you don't sack them, you help them. Many firms have corporate counciling and annonymous numbers for this purpose, not a 1930s mentality to the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression
It is not an uncommon illness to have.
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Firstly, I never said he should have been sacked. 'Removing' him from his post could equally have applied to putting him on compassionate leave at least until his personal problems had been resolved, possibly even with the counselling you advocate.
And a suicidal chief constable is not a man or woman I would want in charge of my local police force. He or she simply has too many responsibilities and faces too many pressures especially if also dealing with personal problems. I am very much in favour of depressed and suicidal people being helped, but in the case of public servants, not at the expense of their public duties.
And I know mental illness is not uncommon. :rolleyes: |
