In July 2015 in Scotland there was a massive outcry after a police control room failed to pass on details of a call about a car in a field. Three days later police officers were finally actioned to investigate and found two people inside the car. One had died in the accident, they other later died due to organ failure as she had been trapped with no food or water.
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Now it is in the news that the family of a police office who was shot in the face and blinded in July 2010 in Northumbria are to sue because the control room there failed to pass on information
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"The claim states that in the early hours of the following morning, he spoke to a call handler at Northumbria Police threatening to kill police officers, ending the call at around 00.34am.
Around eight minutes later, PC Rathband was shot.
The family's legal argument states that two minutes before PC Rathband was shot, a police worker phoned a supervisor asking if "something was going out over the air regarding the threats" - but they say nothing came of it."
This problem is not just limited to police control rooms in the UK, it appears to happen elsewhere as well.
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"Officers in Tamir Rice shooting reacted to what they were told, lawyer says. Police did not know that ‘guy’ waving gun was 12 and that weapon was a toy.....The man who called 911 told the call-taker that a “guy” was pulling a gun out of his waistband and was pointing it at people outside a city recreation center. But the caller also said it could be a juvenile and the gun might be a fake.
The call-taker did not relay that information to the dispatcher who sent Loehmann and Garmback to the recreation center.
Garmback, a veteran officer, knew the area around the recreation center could be a dangerous place where gang members gathered, his attorney said.
“It’s against this backdrop that he got this call,” Maloney said."
At first I was socked about the Rice shooting because two police officers had shot a boy who had a toy gun. Now my shock is due to the failings of the control room to pass on vital information. So much debate has been about Rice was at fault, the officers were at fault, but the person who is very much at fault is the control room staff who failed to pass on vital information. Why are they not being named and investigated?
Why are those in the police control rooms who were responsible for the subsequent death of the car crash victim in Scotland and the police officer shot in the face in England not being named and investigated?
Those who work in police control rooms should be held to account when they are negligent and fail to pass on vital information.
http://ift.tt/1JjosWT
Now it is in the news that the family of a police office who was shot in the face and blinded in July 2010 in Northumbria are to sue because the control room there failed to pass on information
http://ift.tt/1kxJvJw
"The claim states that in the early hours of the following morning, he spoke to a call handler at Northumbria Police threatening to kill police officers, ending the call at around 00.34am.
Around eight minutes later, PC Rathband was shot.
The family's legal argument states that two minutes before PC Rathband was shot, a police worker phoned a supervisor asking if "something was going out over the air regarding the threats" - but they say nothing came of it."
This problem is not just limited to police control rooms in the UK, it appears to happen elsewhere as well.
http://ift.tt/1kxJvsT
"Officers in Tamir Rice shooting reacted to what they were told, lawyer says. Police did not know that ‘guy’ waving gun was 12 and that weapon was a toy.....The man who called 911 told the call-taker that a “guy” was pulling a gun out of his waistband and was pointing it at people outside a city recreation center. But the caller also said it could be a juvenile and the gun might be a fake.
The call-taker did not relay that information to the dispatcher who sent Loehmann and Garmback to the recreation center.
Garmback, a veteran officer, knew the area around the recreation center could be a dangerous place where gang members gathered, his attorney said.
“It’s against this backdrop that he got this call,” Maloney said."
At first I was socked about the Rice shooting because two police officers had shot a boy who had a toy gun. Now my shock is due to the failings of the control room to pass on vital information. So much debate has been about Rice was at fault, the officers were at fault, but the person who is very much at fault is the control room staff who failed to pass on vital information. Why are they not being named and investigated?
Why are those in the police control rooms who were responsible for the subsequent death of the car crash victim in Scotland and the police officer shot in the face in England not being named and investigated?
Those who work in police control rooms should be held to account when they are negligent and fail to pass on vital information.
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