I'm not sure how I feel about this:
Bill on emergency workers assaults passes first stage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-po...ments-41637032
I work in the NHS and we are surrounded by posters telling people not to get violent with staff. Equally as a punter I have been treated with unparalleled rudeness by NHS staff, from admin up to senior clinicians, when in pain and vulnerable or my loved ones were, and I can get why people with less emotional resilience would lash out. (Also a ridiculous quantity of violent actions perpetrated against NHS staff is by people with dementia, who are often physically manhandled to get them where they need to go and lash out because they think they are being attacked.)
Despite all this, I'm loath to say that attacking an emergency workers is a worse crime than attacking anyone else. So if you slap a waitress it's one level of assault but if you slap a nurse you get twice the punishment. That seems to make crimes more serious depending on who the victims are which doesn't sit right with me.
Bill on emergency workers assaults passes first stage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-po...ments-41637032
I work in the NHS and we are surrounded by posters telling people not to get violent with staff. Equally as a punter I have been treated with unparalleled rudeness by NHS staff, from admin up to senior clinicians, when in pain and vulnerable or my loved ones were, and I can get why people with less emotional resilience would lash out. (Also a ridiculous quantity of violent actions perpetrated against NHS staff is by people with dementia, who are often physically manhandled to get them where they need to go and lash out because they think they are being attacked.)
Despite all this, I'm loath to say that attacking an emergency workers is a worse crime than attacking anyone else. So if you slap a waitress it's one level of assault but if you slap a nurse you get twice the punishment. That seems to make crimes more serious depending on who the victims are which doesn't sit right with me.
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