I Am Not Impressed

[choux]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45784043

I expect Sir Craig Mackey will enjoy a long retirement and healthy pension.
If only the same could be said of Sgt & Mrs Keith Palmer.

[emmie]

did you expect him to get out of the car, race in and save the day. I feel desperately sad for the police officer and his wife, but feel that the driver and other police would have told him to say put.

[Spicerack]

I tend to agree with you, choux.

[Mamyalynne]

Often when I read such things the wheels turn in my mind about what I would have done,should have done.

Reality is often very different.

I understand why you feel as you do.

[Spicerack]

//did you expect him to get out of the car, race in and save the day.//

Well, sort of yeah.

[Spicerack]

It's hard to know what you'd do when confronted with the reality of such a thing, mamya, if on your own.
Car full of police, should be a different thing.
I'll guarantee you, a car full of builders wouldn't drive away while their colleague was being stabbed.

[choux]

Generally speaking, the longer I live the fewer expectations I have of the top echelons so I do not claim to be disappointed at this statement of Mackey's, rather I feel sad. Heaven help the grass roots level.

[Denton]

COWARD,pure and simple!!

[Adfa]

There’s a man who knows how to take care of himself

[Theland]

Twice in my life I have witnessed women being attacked.
On both occasions I intervened armed only with my tobacco pouch, and managed a good outcome.

[emmie]

denton
would you have gone steaming in, if so you could have got yourself killed.

[vulcan42]

Are the police no longer trained in how to disarm a man with a knife? also it was, although unarmed, three policemen against one, that should have been enough.

[Theland]

Why didn't they run Massood over?
I expect more from the Police.

[Spicerack]

They're too PC to do that, theland.

[Denton]

Emmie,he is a top Police Officer,should be trained for situations like that,saying that,he probably was never a PC, just another one with qualifications to provide him with a Top Salary and lucrative Pension,just my opinion,of course.

[choux]

From the College of Policing, core principles:

Police use of force
Whenever the use of force is necessary, both the general public and members of the police service expect police forces to:

respect and protect human life, and minimise damage and injury
exercise restraint in such use and ensure that their responses are proportionate and necessary in the circumstances and consistent with the legitimate objective to be achieved
ensure that assistance and aid are rendered to any injured or affected persons at the earliest practicable opportunity.

[Theland]

If he has any decency left he should resign.

[Theland]

His family must be ashamed of him.

[maggiebee]

Wow, what a load of big, brave men on here! Have any of you been in a situation like this? Heard on the radio that he was told to stay in the car, just as I would have done.

[choux]

Well I think I would rather have the men on here in my corner than Mackey.

[Theland]

I am not big and brave. But I couldn't walk on by seeing somebody in distress.
Old age female pensioners have beaten off muggers in the past. Old school. Better take the chance than live with the shame.