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police and fire service.?

Ihave just watched the bbc1 news covering footage of the police attending a call to some youths who in there wisdom were climbing on to a roof, generally messing a bout, the roof was a flat one approx, height 20ft. The police advised the youths of the hidden dangers of climbing, which sensabilly they agreed to, they gave no cheek a seemed quite a decent bunch of lads.The police who was very good with them called for the fire service to attend, which they did and continued to errect a 3 tear ladder supported by ajustable stabilty legs, on raising the ladder to climd up to the roof to check that there was no one else was up there, this was done at the police request.Then to my disbelief the fireman refused to climd the ladder, because he felt it was not is job because he had no powers of arrest, the police only asked the fire service to check that there was no on the roof, they did not say arrest anybody, so the police officer climbed up and did the check, the police could not belief the firemans actions nor could I.The public pay local services wages out of there TAXES and also there wage rises, local services are a none producing unit, we the people of britian pay there wages, so when they ask for public support ie.FIRE SERVICE we should take into account this persons actions.Is it not about time that we now DEREGULATED all local services , just like they did with the BUSES Greater Manchester Transport which was deregulated, deregulate the fire service,and change the police service back into a police force so that they can do the job without any bureaucracy getting in the way, do these things and life maybe abit more pleasant for the people in these jobs.

Public Comments

1. have you ever seen what the fire service and ambulance service have to put up with? yobs throwing briks, stones, bottles and anything else they can find at them? hanging bricks off of bridges ont he moterways at windscreen height so they hit fire engines? the fire service and ambulance service put up with so much bull that they cant stop because they would be arrested themselves, they put up with all this crap for just trying to do there job. i'm not surprised or shocked a fire man didnt go up the ladder because i know a little about what they are put through by people who there trying to save.