Ambulance staff protected from cruel verbal barbs by police
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:57 amA 26-year-old woman has been arrested after an abusive note was left on an ambulance dealing with a 999 call.
The woman, from Tunstall, was arrested on suspicion of public order offences and remains in police custody.
"This is not solely about the note," Staffordshire Police said, "the arrest related to matters of verbal abuse."
The note, which was left on the parked ambulance, read: "If this van is for anyone but Number 14 then you have no right to be parked here".
The note ended by saying: "Now move your van from outside my house."
Mike Duggan, operational manager from West Midlands Ambulance Service, told the BBC he thinks people who abuse emergency staff need to be dealt with more "robustly".
"What is it going to take? Is one of us going to have to die before they take it seriously?" he said.
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