Thread: Attacks on Police

Hi,
I'm of the opinion that any one who gets abusive with police/firefighters/ambos/nursing staff etc should suffer substantial penalties on top of what ever other penalties they incur.
cheers

Yep, your 2 up on the way to these jobs and when they go bad, they go real bad, and you hope to hell you stay upright to react back. The good old days of policing are gone.

Assaulting a police officer should automatically mean double the sentence of what it would have been had it not been a cop.

Would not be much of a deterrent in Vic though, as double nothing = nothing.

Nothing worse, they should get serious, 10 yrs, no excuses, no shortcuts, send out a real message its not accepted full stop.




Wont happen in my life time, but maybe when there are no cops left things may change.


Cheers Ean

It's interesting to see the different opinions on this.

Police mainly deal with a very low percentage of the population apart fromdealing with the odd burglary victim. You'll find most victims usually haveplenty of police prior involvement themselves.

Personally I think police have to expect crooks (not my usual term) to wantto fight and flee. It’s part of the job.

I’d just be happy of the courts would treat cops that same as everybodyelse. It seems that they either apply a lighter sentence for the reason Istated or a heavier sentence because as others have posted.

But I'm not like everybody else.
Kiwi cops - not like everybody else - YouTube

Happy Days.

A friend just commented to me “why not give a higher penalty to deter acrook from assaulting police”. Well why not give a higher penalty to detercrooks from doing anything? Part of the job of police is to protect others fromharm and sometimes that means getting harmed themselves. It doesn’t matter whogets harmed the penalty should be the same.

Just my opinion

Happy Days

joel0407.....I don't know where you draw your information from.

You obviously have no idea at all what you are talking about.

Speak to police officers before you make statements like above.

I'm quite sure they will point out the errors of your ways....

I got the impression Joel possibly has been a police officer maybe in NZ