joshd96320;338272 wrote:
i disagree, it was clearly an accident and although accidents must be kept minimal, you cant stop it, its part of humanity, no one is perfect.. i think they should just carry on and do their best.
I worked in the Civil Service (UK Government) for four years and they are more tolerant than the private sector in some respects.
in normal industry an employee what causes a financial loss and public embarassment to their employers would often be fired and perhaps sued in civil courts to pay back the damage, but the government will cut a good employee some slack (as I found out a few years back when I got arrested whilst still in service!)
It costs something like £20 000 to train a bobby and more to become a specialist such as dog handling so I don’t think they should be sacked from the force, but they definitely should be made to pay back the cost of the dog, and perhaps lose a rank (if they are above constable rank) and any specialist pay priveliges.
but if they aren’t punished the lesson is forgotten. cops are employed to judge and control us, they are expected to be “better” in following rules than the civillians, so why should they not be judged and controlled themselves when they fuck up?
Most cops stay in the job for a fair few years and a basic constable gets around £20000 so £7000 in monthly instalments over a few years isn’t that much. The main idea is that payment stays on their pay slip so every month they are reminded they have fucked up
they are lucky they are cops, as with civillians or other industries often their names and personal info would leak out to the community for the animal rights mob to target them. At least if this happens their mates in the force will back them up against the AR mob!
Also look at it this way. If a more do-gooder “PC PC” type of cop (of which there are loads round these parts) saw someone ill treating their pet, do you think they would just say “give them another chance” or would they get every bit of info they can and then dob the person in to the RSPCA?
