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I'm sorry, but there's a number of people, OK, most posting on here who really have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to the emergency services. Thats not an insult, it's simply you don't know because at 3am, when we (as I was part of that I'll use we to save confusion) are all out to play, you'#re in bed asleep.
Ok so lets start at that point, there you are asleep, when bells and whistles go off, and you have to be awake, thinking practically and ready to go. Not after a cup of tea, a nice long shower and gradual coming to terms with the world, now.
Follow that by a rush through the streets at a reasonable speed with blues/twos going to be faced with a huge number of different types of incident.
That for starters puts a huge strain on your system, no mater how fit you are. I've seen gym addicts keel over in their mid 40's, and yes, I've seen the 6 pints a night and 60 fags a day solider on fit as a fiddle way beyond retirement, and every combination of that.
But, in common with all the emergency services, it kills you. When the Edmund Davies report was published in the late 70's, the life expectancy on average for a Police officer after retirement was 1 year. Yep, 12 months.
The fire service as I recall were in the same boat, constant zero to body full adrenaline, constant changes of shifts, regular lack of sleep, regularly being in a position where your pulse goes through the roof from fear. Having to be (remember you don't) within a few feet of smoke from fires containing all sorts of crap, with no access to breathing apparatus. The list goes on.
There may be a few, and it will be a few Fire service and Police officers that make retirement, but thats all a few. Don't make it, and the pensions are probably worse than most of yours.
Oh well, you get what you pay for, the public needs to wake up, because in a few years time, it will cost a fortune to undo the damage to the emergency services in E&W.
Ok so lets start at that point, there you are asleep, when bells and whistles go off, and you have to be awake, thinking practically and ready to go. Not after a cup of tea, a nice long shower and gradual coming to terms with the world, now.
Follow that by a rush through the streets at a reasonable speed with blues/twos going to be faced with a huge number of different types of incident.
That for starters puts a huge strain on your system, no mater how fit you are. I've seen gym addicts keel over in their mid 40's, and yes, I've seen the 6 pints a night and 60 fags a day solider on fit as a fiddle way beyond retirement, and every combination of that.
But, in common with all the emergency services, it kills you. When the Edmund Davies report was published in the late 70's, the life expectancy on average for a Police officer after retirement was 1 year. Yep, 12 months.
The fire service as I recall were in the same boat, constant zero to body full adrenaline, constant changes of shifts, regular lack of sleep, regularly being in a position where your pulse goes through the roof from fear. Having to be (remember you don't) within a few feet of smoke from fires containing all sorts of crap, with no access to breathing apparatus. The list goes on.
There may be a few, and it will be a few Fire service and Police officers that make retirement, but thats all a few. Don't make it, and the pensions are probably worse than most of yours.
Oh well, you get what you pay for, the public needs to wake up, because in a few years time, it will cost a fortune to undo the damage to the emergency services in E&W.
