Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“ You sound like you're looking for any excuse to bash them, but I bet you'd be complaining if they didn't rush to your house when you're being robbed, and I bet you'd expect them to come in and tackle a drugged up burglar with a knife if you needed help.”
“ You sound like you're looking for any excuse to bash them, but I bet you'd be complaining if they didn't rush to your house when you're being robbed, and I bet you'd expect them to come in and tackle a drugged up burglar with a knife if you needed help.”
I recently received 2 threats from a client, and reported them both (2 separate reports, as they were several days apart). I was told the reports would just be logged and no action would be taken.
I then spoke to the client's mental health worker, in case this was indicative of the client's MH deteriorating. She told me that they had discharged the client, because of several threats to staff. There had also been an incident of criminal damage to the worker's car, followed by another message from the client saying she was responsible.
Each of these events had been reported to the police, and each time the police response had been the same - "we'll log it".
The woman then went on to make threats to staff at the health centre, which were again "logged". The police only took action when the client assaulted the receptionist as she was walking to her car after work. It took them 45 minutes to turn up, even though they were called while the assault was in progress, and the officers had no idea that the client had this history of threats.
So forgive me if I don't have much faith in them, they don't seem to rush anywhere, and if I needed a drugged up, knife wielding burglar dealing with I'd bloody well do it myself.



