Now it is the Forum Police jumping out and stopping us

[Iphido]

I thought the previous thread was still interesting reading and hadn't degenerated completely. Sure a few wayward posts were in there, but they were edited/deleted and thread seemed to be on track. Maybe thats just me, the management can run this forum as they wish.

And I feel there was much to discuss on the issue and was disapointed it was cut short.

Back to the origional point. Can workcover itself be in hot water over this issue as well? It seems that the police knew it was issue, the public knew it was an issue, yet nothing was done. How can this happen? This is akin to a known drug lab being rubber stamped to conduct business in a legitmate manner. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Surely this has to go to the highest levels? Find where procedure and the checks broke down and fixed. We can't afford to lose officers like this and create so much grief for so many yet backed by the state government, which should be acting as a model entity for this.

Which brings up the old story about a workcover officer giving a fine to a officer for not wearing a vest when writing him a traffic fine. Which I belive it was in this board some connected people stated that the cops interned filed charges for immitating a workcover inspector (he was actually a junor inspector or so the story goes). Perhaps in light of recent events, issues such as those should be taken more seriously and both workcover and the police should have followed it up properly instead of burying the issue and undermining the entire worksafe scheme.

This has bad management and politics written all over it. At state government level, at senior police and workcover level and lower levels as well.

We shouldn't have to wait for fatalities for this to become a issue. Near misses should be reported. The whole dam safety system is setup for this to essentially be impossible to do in any company (or entity).

it also raises the issue of police pursuits and driving manner. Ambos and fires are limited to only so much above the posted limit and limited in what they can do where as the police seem to have free reign (either offically or unoffically). Even tho the other services have arguably more important life critical emergencies to attend.

Please note my comments are targeted at senior management in both workcover and the police and not to front line/beat cops are merely following orders and procedures.