First it was the guards who phoned in for help instead of helping a 15yr old girl who could have been stomped to death. Now this. What’s next?, Too dangerous (ie, they might be sued) for cops, firemen, etc to leave the station house? Oh, right. They’re too busy breaking into people’s houses to do real police work.
The five-year-old girl, her-six year-old brother and their father Chris Grady were in the car when it plunged into the river Avon in Evesham, Worcestershire, on Thursday morning.
Mr Grady and his son Ryan, managed to escape from the submerged car. They were helped clear by police officers on the riverbank. However, Mr Grady’s daughter, Gabrielle, was trapped inside the vehicle for 97 minutes before the closest police dive team, based in the next county, could arrive. The divers then took a further 12 minutes to rescue her.
The officers already on the scene were prevented from diving in earlier to rescue her by police safety regulations.
The little girl remained in a critical state in hospital yesterday while her brother yesterday began to make a recovery. He was well enough to sit up in bed and talk to family at his bedside.
West Mercia police admitted last night that safety regulations barred normal police officers from jumping into rivers to try to save people.
Last summer in Cumbria (another part of England), a police officer died rescuing people from floods. Not all police officers and forces are slaves to the Health & Safety pencil-pushers.
The good sam laws have been OVERWHELMED..
the first rule, is DONT TOUCH ANY ONE unless you are a SPECIALIST.. you may be a Doctor, but if you are NOT into EMR rated, you can be SUED until your BUTT NEVER STOPS BLEEDING.
second rule, if you dont have a back SUPPORT BOARD, you are not capable of helping, so GO AWAY. IF you are shown to cause/worsen more injury of ANY SORT, You will be sued and paying the REST OF YOUR LIFE..
You will see that the first person to RUN AWAY from an accident will be ALL Doctors. they will not stop, look, or consider it in any form. Unless they have Emergency rescue training, they wont even raise a hand. IN THE USA.
Rules, safety and job description are a big thing for many police officers. That’s why they didn’t attempt to rescue the children being massacred at Columbine. It would be like a professional journalist putting down his camera to perform needed CPR on a dying child. Who does that? Except heros, I mean.
RBG
Actually not the first incident of this type – a couple of officers stood by and watched someone drowning in the UK last year (because of Health & Safety Regulations) rather than jump in and save them.
As crazy as it might sound, if the officers don’t follow the laid down H&S regulations they can find themselves facing prosecution! That’s 13 years under a socialist Labour government for you – Idiotic.
The father saved himself first and left the girl to die.
It’s not the police who are at fault here.
This is a timely story for me because of a story on TV last night.
A girl died in a drowning and they interviewed a a local “hero” who said,
“I heard the mother crying, ‘help my daughter’ so I called 911.”
Wow, it’s easy to be heroic these days!
The father didn’t just “save himself”.
According to the story….
The children’s father was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
I’ve always said, God help the children of wacky
parents. Society rarely can save them.
They needed global warming to keep from freezing in the water.
Guess the last of the Brits who were worth anything died off in WW2 – the ones that were left to breed were apparently invertebrates with minimal cranial capacity.