Dumb Cops

[Iris]

A few years back after an operation , when I returned home I managed to clean and change the wound every day. On returning to the specialist for a checkup he said what a wonderful job the district nurse had done.
When I asked"What district nurse?" he said he had left instructions at the hospital for one to attend to me.
He wasn't too pleased but I don't know if anything was said. I hope they weren't paid for something they hadn't done.

 

[Mythopoeika]

A few years back after an operation , when I returned home I managed to clean and change the wound every day. On returning to the specialist for a checkup he said what a wonderful job the district nurse had done.
When I asked"What district nurse?" he said he had left instructions at the hospital for one to attend to me.
He wasn't too pleased but I don't know if anything was said. I hope they weren't paid for something they hadn't done.

That's awful, Isis. I hope you are OK now.

 

[Iris]

Thankyou Mythopoeika, yes this was a few years ago.Just getting over the local cold/flu that is going around, so not socialising till it's gone.

 

[escargot]

That must have been awful for them. :lol:

Yup, there was an inquiry, police involvement (there were missing meds too) and no doubt a few comprehensively ruined xmas dinners. 8)

When it all blew up I had a great row with the agency boss on the phone. Well, I say 'row', it was more just her shrieking empty threats at me while I repeated 'Go on then!'

Hey Isis, hope you're feeling better!
That doctor's order must've gone missing somewhere if you didn't even see the nurse.

Might have been a good idea for you to know a nurse was expected too, give you a fighting chance of getting one!

 

[OneWingedBird]

Yup, there was an inquiry, police involvement (there were missing meds too) and no doubt a few comprehensively ruined xmas dinners. Cool

Was it NHS or Adult Social Care?

I have a certain amount of contact in my work with family carers and am aware of some quite horrendous things that go on, most never made public and not appropriate for discussion here.

You did really well to get a result there, even if it was only buggering up someone's christmas dinner. :yeay:

 

[escargot]

It was a home care agency. We used Just Checking to watch when people came and went.

The system gives you a graph online which indicates where people are moving about in the home and when exterior doors open and close.

It took me three days to bust the 'carers' who weren't doing the job: I could see that they were coming and going at the wrong times and not staying long enough or just not turning up, and I was able to catch them forging visit and medication records. The graphs provided cast-iron proof of the malpractice.

The online graphs showed where our relation was in their home at any time. We could log in and see if they'd got up to go to the bathroom at night, for example.
You'd see movement in the bedroom, then hall, bathroom, hall again and then bedroom.

Interestingly, there was sometimes movement in the kitchen in the early hours with no corrresponding trace from the bedroom/hall, indicating that someone or something was moving around in there spontaneously. There were no pets or rodents present. We called that the ghost. :lol:

 

[Swifty]

Hi escargot1 and thank you for monitoring sloppy care workers because I'm an ex-community adult carer.

Can I please ask your opinion on something. I was sent to visit a man with terminal cancer four times a day. It was harrowing but it was my job, worse for him than me and he'd requested me.

One morning I turned up and his family had been concerned enough to call an out of hours doctor who'd provided a new medication. Because our company didn't know/have time to provide a MAR chart, I read the pamphlet inside the box and, written in bold font was DO NOT GIVE TO ANYONE WITH A SERIOUS LUNG CONDITION. This man had lung cancer.

My manager wouldn't answer her phone before 10am, I was with this guy at 8am. I pointed this out to the man's daughter and told her that, although doctors were way more qualified than me, I had a duty of care and wasn't willing to administer this medication but also wasn't going to withhold it from the family if they wished to do so. She read the pamphlet and agreed with me being concerned. I encouraged the daughter to (and she did) double check that this new medication was safe to give her Dad with his doctor.

An official complaint was made about me from the doctor (I presume, I was never told) and my manager told me over my company cell tracked phone that I'd over stepped the mark. I told her I didn't want to speed up this man's death and end up in court on a manslaughter charge. I was the person signing off all the different meds I gave him on each visit so I would have had to accept the blame.

Was I in the wrong or was my company scared of higher health authorities ?

 

[ramonmercado]

Well I think you were right and you should have complained about the doctor to the Medical Council.

 

[OneWingedBird]

Interestingly, there was sometimes movement in the kitchen in the early hours with no corrresponding trace from the bedroom/hall, indicating that someone or something was moving around in there spontaneously. There were no pets or rodents present. We called that the ghost. Laughing

You are such a little tease! I would want to find out what that was. :lol:

 

[CarlosTheDJ]

Well I think you were right and you should have complained about the doctor to the Medical Council.

I think you were 100% correct also. You put the decision with the family until you were satisfied it was safe.

 

[Swifty]

Well I think you were right and you should have complained about the doctor to the Medical Council.

I think you were 100% correct also. You put the decision with the family until you were satisfied it was safe.

Thank you because all I got was a telling off for 'not knowing my boundaries' ... To me, that's eauthanasia via care worker that could speed up someone's Dad's death ... One of my managers even said "Well, we know he's dying anyway". I've got a new job now.

 

[OneWingedBird]

Without wanting to sidetrack the thread further, I've heard the culture in parts of the NHS and Adult Social Care described as 'toxic', and that is one of the kinder things I've heard said.

I think you did right by yourself Swity, and right by the family too. You made a choice about what you wanted to be responsible for and respected the wishes of others who were best qualified to know about that persons care.

Anyone who would rather have let the guy die or come to harm just so that they could tick all of the right boxes can go... well I think you know what they can go and do. :lol:

I'm glad your out of there.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Reading your account, Swifty, I'd say you did exactly the right thing.
I'd have done the same if I was in your situation.

 

[Swifty]

Thanks you four .. community care work can be pretty rank without backup.

 

[escargot]

I've only just caught up on here, sorry!

Yes, Swifty, you were COMPLETELY right to check first rather than just give the meds. You weren't refusing to do your job, you were being cautious. The family were lucky to have you there.

I always have a union to turn to at difficult times. Without one you're on your own. In the situation you were in I'd have done as you did and then rung my union for advice in case there was trouble, as they'd be who I'd turn to if I were threatened with the sack or whatever.

If the doctor did make a complaint about you, they were probably trying to arse-cover after their mistaken prescription. I'd feel proud to have rattled the cocky bastard that much. Perhaps they'll check next time they prescribe for a terminally-ill patient.

 

[Swifty]

No worries and thanks for the kind words escargot1 ...

 

[ramonmercado]

German police apologise for fining one-armed cyclist for riding his bike with only one arm

Cologne’s Bogdan Ionescu had (completely legally) modified his bike so he could operate one brake with his foot – but police fined him anyway

A one-armed man in Germany has received a full apology and refund from the police after an overzealous officer fined him for cycling using only one arm.

Bogdan Ionescu, a theatre box office worker from Cologne, gets around the usually cycle-friendly city using a modified bicycle that allows him to operate both brakes – one with his foot.

But on 25 March he was pulled over by a police officer who, he says, told him he was breaking the law.

Under German road safety rules, bicycles are required to have to have two handlebar brakes. After a long argument at the roadside, the officer insisted that Mr Ionescu’s bike was not roadworthy and issued him with a €25 (£20) fine.

The incident was investigated by local newspaper the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, which discovered that with its modifications the bike was in fact entirely legal.

Last week police agreed to offer a refund – but disputed the figure to be offered. It said that while €5 of the fine had been related to the “missing” brake, the other €20 was for an allegedly faulty light.

Mr Ionescu did not let the matter lie there, though, and said he was able to prove that he had always had two functioning, pedal-powered lights throughout the episode. ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 78923.html

 

[Bulldog1]

Going back a few years I was once a front seat passenger in a friends car when she was pulled over by the police.
The officer came to the drivers side of the car and asked 'Are you the driver of this vehicle?'

Obviously not detective material.....

 

[XBergMann]

I was sitting in the passenger seat of a friends car while he was driving through a small village in the rural fenlands back in the early 1980s.

We were stopped by a traffic cop or allegedly speeding in a 30 mph zone, the cop walked up to the driver's window and said "excuse me sir do you know the speed limit on this stretch of road?"

To which my friend replied "Why officer don't you?"

I thought this was terribly funny at the time.

It seems the police have better questions these days.

 

[ramonmercado]

I was sitting in the passenger seat of a friends car while he was driving through a small village in the rural fenlands back in the early 1980s.

We were stopped by a traffic cop or allegedly speeding in a 30 mph zone, the cop walked up to the driver's window and said "excuse me sir do you know the speed limit on this stretch of road?"

To which my friend replied "Why officer don't you?"

I thought this was terribly funny at the time.

It seems the police have better questions these days.

Not always a good idea to unnecessarily annoy cops!

 

[OneWingedBird]

I wonder if this one was related to the nurses who couldn't tell if a woman was dead or not?

A police officer concluded that the death of a man who was found with a sock stuffed into his mouth and had extensive injuries to his head and blood-stained body was not suspicious, a murder trial heard. :madeyes:

A jury heard Kevin Childs, 58, was found face down on the floor of his flat with injuries to his face caused by multiple blows. A blood-stained fork at the scene also appears to have been used to scratch his face.

Evidence was also found which indicated that Mr Childs had been tied up with a belt.

Yorkshire Evening Pest

 

[hunck]

No, nothing suspicious there.

 

[ramonmercado]

Family says epileptic son died after being restrained by police who mistook seizure for violence

Exclusive: The 32-year-old died after being in a coma for two days after incident
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Police pepper-sprayed an innocent man suffering an epileptic seizure and bundled him into a van without realising he was having a heart attack from which he never recovered, according to his devastated family.

The 32-year-old, whose relatives wish to remain anonymous, is believed to have had cardiac arrest in the van and fell into a coma before dying two days later in hospital.

Police attempted to revive the man when they realised he was unconscious.

The man’s father, who did not want to be named, said his son had been spending his evening with his girlfriend and friends on Saturday in Haywards Heath, Sussex.

When he fell into a complex partial seizure, a neighbour mistook his shouting for an argument and called the police.

His aunt said the officers arrived while as their suspect walked out of the house into the garden, unaware of his surroundings – behaviour that was routine for her nephew and is well-known among epilepsy sufferers.

She added: “He wandered out into the garden as the police arrived and they assumed he was violent.

“His girlfriend told the police he was having a seizure, she shouted at them to stop, but they ignored her. ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr ... 43577.html

 

[ramonmercado]

G-string and bullet sender ‘was in contact with detective’

Phone records show a Dublin woman was in contact with a detective garda when she allegedly posted a Valentines card containing a g-string and a bullet to one of the officer’s colleagues, a court has heard.

Julie Conway Browning, 49, from Dermot O’Dwyer House, Hardwicke St, Dublin has pleaded not guilty to giving information she knew to be false or misleading to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

It was day two of her trial at Dublin District Court, which has heard claims of bullying and harassment in the serious crime team, a section of the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, based in Harcourt Square.

The defence is also seeking to have the woman’s case thrown out claiming a complaint was received by GSOC too late. The case was adjourned for four weeks when a ruling will be made as to whether or not the trial will continue.

Judge Bryan Smyth has heard evidence that a complaint had been made to GSOC on August 14, 2011, from the wife of Det Sergeant Michael Buckley of the serious crime review team.

She told GSOC her husband has been subjected to “harassment and bullying” by two named colleagues, including a Det Gda David O’Brien.

She alleged that, in February 2011, her husband “received an envelope in the post, it contained a Valentines card”. Inside the card was a poem of a “graphic sexual nature” as well as a “black and red g-string and a .22 calibre bullet” ...

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/g- ... 86098.html

 

[ramonmercado]

Daniele Watts: Django Unchained actress detained in Los Angeles after being mistaken for a prostitute

Hollywood actress was mistaken for a prostitute by the LAPD after she was seen kissing her husband in the street

Daniele Watts, an African-American actress who has starred in Hollywood films such as Django Unchained, has claimed she was "handcuffed and detained" by Los Angeles police officers after being mistaken for a prostitute.

Two police officers approached Watts and her white husband Brian James Lucas when they were seen showing affection in public, the actress said in a Facebook post.

She claims she refused to produce her photo ID when asked by police, and was then handcuffed and held in a police car as the officers tried to figure out who she was. She reportedly cut her wrist as she was handled roughly by the LAPD officers.

Watts also posted pictures to Facebook, in which she is handcuffed and crying. She was released shortly afterwards.

"As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong, " she wrote in the post.

"I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that “authority figures” could control my BEING… my ability to BE!!!!!!! ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 31871.html

 

[ramonmercado]

DC cop under fire for harassing man filming arrest

The Police Chief in Washington, DC, is speaking out against one of her officers and in support of a man who stopped to record police arresting a man on a sidewalk only to be harassed by police and suspected of involvement in a crime for doing so.

Metropolitan Police Department Police Chief Cathy Lanier said she was surprised by the officer's actions in the incident that happened this week, and that he is now under investigation because for clearly violating the department’s own regulations.

In the cell-phone video recording posted on YouTube, several police officers could be seen arresting a man lying on the ground, with his belongings scattered on the sidewalk outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

Just over 50 seconds into the video, an officer approaches the witness, Andrew Heining, to ask if he knows the person being restrained.

“Are you a part of this, sir?” the officer, identified as C.C. Reynolds, asked Heining. “You’re videotaping an investigation. This can be evidence in the case you understand that?”

The officer also claimed Heining was blocking the sidewalk, to which Heining replied, “I am just standing on the sidewalk, Sir,” and swinging the camera to show the sidewalk is clear. Reynolds replied, “This is not public, right!” The two went back-and-forth on whether Heining was allowed to film the incident.

“You are videotaping this crime scene, right? ... That makes you part of it. And your little camera phone could be used as evidence, you understand?” Reynolds said.

Heining didn't back down, and eventually the officer made him move back to the street corner and taped off half of the street block around the man being restrained. ...

http://rt.com/usa/187468-washington-cop ... ng-arrest/

 

[OneWingedBird]

I feel sorry for this guy already, his only apparent 'transgression' so far has been to have been nearby 'acting suspiciously'.

A man accused of setting fire to a former Leeds nightclub was mistakenly released from court custody.

Stuart Jefferson, 32, of Broadlee Street, Leeds, denied starting the fire at the Majestyk when he appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

He was initially granted unconditional bail but prosecutors appealed.

Instead of holding Mr Jefferson in a cell while a decision was reached, staff at the court released him.

The defendant was found later in Leeds city centre and returned to court.

Although it was not Mr Jefferson's fault, police spent 90 minutes looking for him.

He has now been remanded in custody to appear at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.

BBC

 

[ramonmercado]

MARIJUANA MIX-UP

USA: A man says officers looking for drugs mistook his okra plants for marijuana.

Dwayne Perry of Cartersville, Georgia, told WSB-TV he was woken by a helicopter flying low over his house before heavily-armed deputies and a dog unit showed up at his door. They were from the Governor’s Task Force for drug suppression and looking for marijuana plants.

What they had seen, apparently, were Mr Perry’s okra plants and a shrub at the end of his house. He said the officers ended up apologising.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 90186.html

They deserve a ladys finger.

 

[PeniG]

Okra does not look significantly like marijuana. Tomatoes, on the other hand...

 

[ramonmercado]

Police pepper-sprayed a teenager in his foster home in a Raleigh, North Carolina suburb, after a neighbor mistook him as an intruder. Race may have played a part in the incident, as the high schooler is black and his foster parents and siblings are white.

DeShawn Currie returned to his Fuquay-Varina foster home after school on Monday, where he has been living for about a year. His foster mother, Stacy Tyler, had left the side door unlocked for him. He went up to his room.

But a neighbor saw the 18-year-old walk into the home and called 911 to report a break-in, according to WTVD. Three police officers arrived at the home, found the side door ajar and walked in, guns drawn, the Associated Press reported.

Barefoot and dressed in a tank-top and shorts, Currie came downstairs and met them in the dining room.

"They was like, 'Put your hands on the door’,” the teenager told WTVD. "I was like, 'For what? This is my house.' I was like, 'Why are y'all in here?'"

The responding police told him to shut up, he told AP. ...

http://rt.com/usa/194344-police-peppers ... ster-home/