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Kit Fang asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 1 decade ago

Do you think it's right to criticise the emergency services in the Bird case?

Today survivors and the families of victims of Derek Bird complained that victims had to wait too long for ambulance crews and doctors to reach them, due to the police not allowing them through to get to some victims. Should ambulance crews be allowed, or even encouraged, to put their lives at risk in order to get to patients as soon as possible in cases such as this (where a gun man was still on the loose in the area), or were the police right to enforce the perimeter when it came to emergency medical help?

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  • Tom
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    1 decade ago
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    The police were perfectly correct in this case. In EMS, we are taught to protect ourselves above anything else, then our crew, AND THEN our patient on the list of priorities. I don't know about you, but I am not going to get shot trying to save someone else when the police are there trying to return order to a chaotic situation. Encouraging EMS crews to take unnecessary risks is unethical and downright assinine - if the people you called to help you are hurt, what good does that do you or anybody else? Instead of one patient, you now have multiple patients.

  • 1 decade ago

    In this instance the police were probably right. Seeing as he had passed them a couple of times already they at least did one thing right. That was not letting people be treated for their own stupid idiotic behaviour at doing their job properly.

    I do think the ambulance crews were trying to do their jobs properly but only god knows what the police were up to. I doubt seriously they know themselves. Our police force and personnel seem to get more and more sloppier by the day.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Its a difficult call but it wouldn't have helped anyone if he had shot the ambulance crews. It must be hard for the families of people killed by Bird but if the paramedics had been shot too their loved ones would still have died.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the cops were stupid not to allow risks to be taken - they were blindly following health and safety rules

  • 1 decade ago

    Damned if they do, damned if they don't. I think it was the right choice in this case. The risk was far too big.

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