The cool heads in the cool air conditioned offices of the elite leadership team of the CTCC have made a serious decision.
They have considered all the facts, they are highly paid to make important decisions like this,they have to consider the public and corporate image negative impact strategy as well as the fact that the weather has got rather warm of late. Despite being well into the morning towards lunchtime.
Will the troops look the part and still give the correct and professional corporate image ? What about those trendy designer sunglasses ?
OK then, they can take off their ties.
Great news.
For those who do not have the luxury of an air conditioned office or the comfort of an air conditioned car (when it is working) this is a small relief from the sticky and uncomfortable heat and an opportunity to remove the body armour for a while until the next call.
I feel sorry for the military in Iraq & Afghanistan where the wearing of life preserving equipment is essential and the temperature is considerably hotter.
Suddenly life doesn’t seem too bad.
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They never let us take our ties off no matter what. When I was in foreign parts during the Gulf conflict and various tours in the Slavik states we fortunately/ unfortunately weren’t issued with body armour.
Still blinking hot with a tie though!
Regards.
Ha! In the Gulf, we didn’t wear ties. It was a tad warm though, 55C in the shade. Even the locals struggled. The top tip was/is drink plenty of water. We had to take in 2.5l per hour, sounds a lot, but actually that was an advised minimum intake. And it was surprisingly easy.
Due to borked air-con, too many bodies and too much heat-generating computer equipment, our wall thermometer at work today registered 32C. We finally got some windows opened by threatening to strip off en-masse. You’d understand that better if you saw us – suffice to say the average age is on the down-side of 40!
Seems an appropriate thread in which to mention dogs shut in overheated vans. And I say this with no suggestion of anything other than sickness and distress until I hear more.
I have to agree with MidSouthJP
I have just heard of the tragedy of the two brave K9 police who lost their lived in a battle with the heat in the back of a police van. My god! what a terrible end!
How can this have happenned?
As a dog owner, I am const\antly aware of my four legged friend’s needs, and if I am feeling hot, I know that she is even hotter…… Surely dog-handlers are programmed to do the right thing?
I hope their handlers are treated as any member of the public would be treated who causes an animal to suffer
Sweet lawdy mamma, is the tie decision making thing still going on?
As for the death in the van – Lesley, I would expect higher things from a dog handler but the same burden of proof as the public are entitled. There’ll be much more evidence to gather than just two desparately tragic corpses. I’m sure `Whichend` will have something to say in due course.
No matter what the ’causes’ or ‘faults’ may be – remember to have sympathy for the Handler.
It is impressive to see how the media are working the story – bulk speculation as usual.
The only surprise? I haven’t yet heard the first incidence of “lessons will be learned”, However that’s OK since the Police Authority have already fulfilled their remit – by calling on the Chief Constable to ‘ensure this can never happen again’…
The case of the dogs in the vehicle calls into question the professionalism of the handler. S/He may have been detained in a meeting or by a senior officer, but professionalism would say that s/he should atttend to the dogss, even if it meant leaving the meeting or walking away from the senior officer.
Whilst the handler is a constable first, s/he’s also a professional with animals.
It’s not as if the officer was on a shout – it happened at HQ.
If a senior officer detained the handler after being told of concern for the dogs, then that officer is also culpable.
I am given to believe that these dogs were donated to the police. What must the previous owners think?
Ah, but what sort of trivial box ticking nonsense was the handler dragged into? What form had they incorrectly dotted Is’ or ts’? Or ‘ ‘ in the wro’ng plaice? what evil speling mistakes had they done?
I do not know any of the facts of the case. But I suspect a scapegoat will be found, ie one Dog Handler. But I suspect that they got caught up in some target meeting nonsense… where someone in SMT thought their ticky boxes were worth more than a couple of Police Personnels lives.
It’s here – “Lessons will be learned” – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/8129826.stm
I feel sorry for them, and for their handler. Not a lot more to say.