Posted By Martin Gray Lance Give me a ring on 01242 276411 and I will try and assist you. Martin

Posted By Lance Morgan Thanks for your input Dave. I have'nt heard any of those jokes before? doh!

Posted By steve williamson Hi Lance, Don't do it. Look at your data for aggression and violence and I think you'll find it's far more widespread, if less frequent than yer average casualty viewer would imagine. Once started where do you stop with the range of people wanting protection and the type of gear being demanded. Some of the starship troopers in A & E's are setting themselves up as targets for the local yobbery with helmets, shinguards and nightsticks. We put our security staff in soft dress, trained them very well in de-escalation and C & R and followed up our analysis with some commonsense controls on providing services then invested in a good co-ordinated attack alarm system. We know that stab vests don't stop crossbow bolts. Hope this is helpful, Stevew

Posted By Dave Wilson Angela, Any safety issue is taken seriously and advice offered if you have the expertise to advise. You obviously have, however what you seem to have missed is that you are deliberatly putting your officers in the firing line as part of their job - dealing with and arresting suspected, sometimes violent criminals, so you go kitted out sometimes with firearms and have in extreme cases the authority to use them. Medical and support staff do not do this. So how do you protect them? Is it necessary?