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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
My personnel feeling is that the police services, whatever force it is, deserve DOUBLE what they get, along with LAS and the Nurses.
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I take it you've never met any nurses? I have, and while a lot do a good job, there are also quite a few who do little or nothing. I suppose my opinion on Nurses took a knock when I worked at a hospital and saw how many Nurses nicked food from the patients. Not a good thing when we were budgeted a total of £1.49 a day for each patient and that £1.49 had to cover *all* the food and drink given to that patient for that day.
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WOULD any member of this forum do there job, l doubt that very much, its stressful, it is sometime take you to the limit, when you arrest someone and then get away with it on a technicality.
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I wouldn't. I know a few coppers though. How hard the job is depends on the area you are assigned to. I know that it *can* be a very dangerous and stressful job.
To illustrate that, I'll repeat something I posted a while back. One of my friends had been out of training a couple of weeks, and was assigned to Hounslow.
He was out on patrol and had to search a drug addict. In the search, he was stabbed by an empty syringe. He had to endure weeks of stress while he waited to find out what (if anything) he was infected by. He even convinced himself he was HIV+. Thankfully, the needle was clean. I am sure Derek has many similar stories.
However, he is posted in a quiet town now and (apparently) rarely sees action, but still gets paid the same.
It's also worth remembering that the Police are not the only government employees who regularly face danger (although they are amongst the better paid). I have family who worked at the DSS. They got death threats daily from claimants. Threats we were advised to take *seriously*. They were paid less than a third of what the average copper earned at the time.