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PANSW vice president Pat Gooley said, "We are working with government to secure urgently needed additional funding – it's time to protect those that protect the community." He said; "It is going to be an expensive process and that money has to come from somewhere,"
All this talk and reaction reminds me so much of workplace safety (more, more, more), although when a worker gets killed, they get no where near the publicity like those in the services who are in a high risk job. We see no state funerals or awards given to their services to society. As I have said before, workers just seem to be ignored as just workers!!!
In response to the reaction to add 'more' police/protection, I would have to ask, then who is going to protect those, who protect the police, who protect the community?
While I think the extra safety controls being discussed have some merit (as safety is paramount), are we really going to far trying to protect police. The worker killed was not a uniformed officer, so while police are now using this act to get extra funding to increase protection (a long running battle for those in uniform), are we going to have to pay for personal police escorts for all those (behind the scenes) who work for police while they travel to and from work or leave to go on lunch etc?
Then we have a story like this link below and it really gets me thinking...who protects the public against police?
