Police in Mr Burgess case sacked

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I remember that. Truly disgraceful.
What was wrong with a couple of carers sorting it out if it was only a butter knife.
Mind you it’s all ‘elf n safety’ now.
I remember talking down an elderly bloke with dementia who assaulted another resident with one of those old chrome kettles, remember those with the long, sharp spout. The bloke ended up with stitches in his face.
We never called the police.

Am not sure why a carer didn’t ask a member of the family to come and try to calm their relative down before ringing the police. When my DH was in hospital after suffering a stroke the elderly gentleman in the opposite bed had dementia and suddenly kicked off, grabbing his dinner tray and threatening to hit one of the nurses, his daughter was immediately alerted and was there within half an hour and with the nursing staff managed to calm him down. He was a sweetheart the rest of the time, told everybody who cared to listen that we were all staying in a lovely hotel.

I remember that. Truly disgraceful.
What was wrong with a couple of carers sorting it out if it was only a butter knife.
Mind you it’s all ‘elf n safety’ now.
I remember talking down an elderly bloke with dementia who assaulted another resident with one of those old chrome kettles, remember those with the long, sharp spout. The bloke ended up with stitches in his face.
We never called the police.

Correct desition.

I find it very hard to understand how a jury could previously have found these two officers not guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

I’m very glad they’ve been sacked - they both deserve it.

I thought it was awful. Yes the correct decision.

I can’t watch the video footage again, saw it once and felt sick to my stomach.
No attempt was made to subdue the vulnerable man by just calmly talking him down, they acted like brutes and the female officer later joked about it. The family must be hopping mad.

True gross misconduct, they deserved to be sacked from the force.

Yes, the correct decision. Inappropriate use of force and excessive use of force is always unacceptable and always should be treated as gross misconduct.

The video footage at the time was awful.

It was awful, wasn’t it 😥
How did these 2 ever get into the service.