Gerard

We don’t talk enough about Compassion Fatigue…👀 It can affect all public facing emergency service staff. If you deal with trauma it has the potential to absorb your ability to be compassionate to others. It can lead to burnout & depression. We need to do more to identify it. #MentalHealth🚨#ThinBlueLine #MentalHealthAwareness 💯

A heartfelt shoutout to the awesome army of nurses everywhere who save lives and care for the sick 24/7 365. Always a pleasure to work together when we’re in 🏥. In A&E they often experience as much abuse as we do. Incomprehensible, but true. Thank you! 💙 #nurses #NursesDay 🚨

Oh and to those that do constantly criticise us, having never been in any situation a Police Officer has been in, we’re recruiting Regular and Special Constables constantly. Come tell me how you get an adult holding a knife to a child’s neck because they’ve had an argument with their partner and think they’re going to lose their child, to put that knife down? It much like how I don’t go into a financial forecasting meeting and shout “YOU’VE PREDICTED MARCH ALL WRONG!” Just because I prefer April to March as a time of year and have literally no financial training or expertise whatsoever, just an opinion, that has no relevance to how procedurally that meeting and judgement will be made. We constantly have to make impossible decisions based on a legal frame work that we didn’t decide and those decisions are interpreted by magistrates and judges, who again have never been in these situations themselves. We live in a perpetual Catch 22. If you think you know better, come on down we have free tickets to the greatest show on Earth, just make sure you’re ready, it’s no ordinary ride. 🤷🏼‍♂️🙄💯🚨 #ThinBlueLine #Policing 🚨