I met a guy called Paul today at work.

[austinsmirk]

Another tale: we discovered a dead tenant in one of our flats. A known drug and alcohol user.

He'd died but locked in the same room was his bull terrier or similar horrible dog.

Yes it had survived the days by eating him. N

[ED209]

dingg said:

'we' humans can do anything with the correct conditioning

no doubt a new recruit WILL chuck up finding himself at a situation as the OP but will be able to accept the same thing once knowing what to expect , and having experienced it a few times.


there's some st jobs out there though

BUT

Its a job - end of.....

Yup its a job but sometimes not the "end of" as you put it.

Last may I spent almost an hour giving CPR to a murder victim, this included as a doctor opened up his chest as i worked on him. Doing my job yes but will i ever forget it? probably not. Theres many other jobs where you can forget your days work by the time you get home that day.

[dingg]

^^^

its ONLY a job - get over it.

if you don't want to do it

DO SOMETHING ELSE - someone WILL step into your place.

[Elroy Blue]

Do you apply the same logic to Soldiers with PTSD

[Dibble]

dingg said:

^^^

its ONLY a job - get over it.

if you don't want to do it

DO SOMETHING ELSE - someone WILL step into your place.

It will be "only" a job the day cops stop caring about the people we deal with. The ones who fall through the ever widening cracks in "the system". The ones we buy food, clothing and gas/electricity top ups for from our own pockets. The mental health patients we talk down from bridges, then sit with for hours at hospital until they can get assessed. The next of kin from fatal RTAs and murders the FLOs spend hours, weeks, months with, through the investigation, trial and beyond.

It's difficult to "get over it" when you give CPR to a drowned child and get a mouthful of his stomach contents, then have to stay in the same wet clothes for the next twelve hours, still with that taste in your mouth and only a few hours later attend a fatal RTA where the victim's head has been crushed like a boiled egg with a spoon.

Or would you rather policing was done by minimum wage G4S drones who have the right to strike and can't be forced to work longer than their contracted hours?

[Terminator X]

Sobering post from the OP, tough job and all that.

TX.

[dingg]

you officers are ALL taking it too personal

if you do not like the job

DO SOMETHING ELSE

someone else will fill your boots.

[ED209]

dingg said:

you officers are ALL taking it too personal

if you do not like the job

DO SOMETHING ELSE

someone else will fill your boots.

Who said they didn't like it?

[wazztie16]

carinaman said:

Perhaps the Supermarkets could flag it up to the police if they notice their online shop delivery vans delivering steadily increasing volumes of air fresheners to the same address?

Along the same sort of lines, I'm a Home shopping driver, and once turned up to a house with the door inside the porch agar, shopping bags in the porch, no response to my knocking, shouting or phone calls, so I assumed the worst and phoned the police.

Transpired the customer had moved house and not told us, as the police operator informed me when I said I'd liked to have known the outcome.

A happy ending that time, but I dread the day I come across that sort of situation, and it doesn't end well.

[Ruskie]

Nothing smells like a dead body, its a smell that never leaves you and it also clings to your nostrils for hours after.

Nice writing.

[0a]

dingg said:

you officers are ALL taking it too personal

if you do not like the job

DO SOMETHING ELSE

someone else will fill your boots.

Is there really any need for this post?

I have my own points that I think the police could do better on, but would not wish some of the scenarios they face on anyone.

[DoubleSix]

dingg said:

^^^

its ONLY a job - get over it.

if you don't want to do it

DO SOMETHING ELSE - someone WILL step into your place.

Whilst I probably wouldn't have the gumption to put it quite like that I kind of get what this chap is saying.

Society is full of unsung heroes, many of whom don't have the weight of the law at their disposal and whom quietly do very challenging jobs.

Police do seem to like to remind us all how lucky we are to have them and the OP's post is only just the right side of indulgent if I may be forgiven for saying so. A rotting cadaver isn't fun, but as in the example I gave earlier I personally don't think it compares to what many other people do on a daily basis without recognition in modern UK - and to be fair to Dibble he also said as much too.

Perhaps those of you falling over yourselves to heap praise could spare a thought for the hospital porter, care worker, underpaid nurse or office cleaner who starts her shift as her children arrive home.

The Police have a tough job but lets keep some perspective here.

[mph1977]

0a said:

dingg said:

you officers are ALL taking it too personal

if you do not like the job

DO SOMETHING ELSE

someone else will fill your boots.

Is there really any need for this post?

I have my own points that I think the police could do better on, but would not wish some of the scenarios they face on anyone.

if everyone was as selfish and shallow as some of the negative commentors then we'd be really deep in it

posts like this which remind people of the reality of practice for Police officers , other emergency and health services personnel and in the case of body recovery often the lesser paid and lower status employeees of FUneral directors ... are an important part of pointing out

1. these people are human as well
2. what the see, smell, touch, feel ( and taste) on a regular basis ...

[LocoCoco]

0a said:

dingg said:

you officers are ALL taking it too personal

if you do not like the job

DO SOMETHING ELSE

someone else will fill your boots.

Is there really any need for this post?

Somebody wanted to make Singlecoil happy I guess. I was tempted to make a similar post just to satisfy him but didn't because I realised it would annoy many more people than it would please.

[Bigends]

DoubleSix said:

dingg said:

^^^

its ONLY a job - get over it.

if you don't want to do it

DO SOMETHING ELSE - someone WILL step into your place.

Whilst I probably wouldn't have the gumption to put it quite like that I kind of get what this chap is saying.

Society is full of unsung heroes, many of whom don't have the weight of the law at their disposal and whom quietly do very challenging jobs.

Police do seem to like to remind us all how lucky we are to have them and the OP's post is only just the right side of indulgent if I may be forgiven for saying so. A rotting cadaver isn't fun, but as in the example I gave earlier I personally don't think it compares to what many other people do on a daily basis without recognition in modern UK - and to be fair to Dibble he also said as much too.

Perhaps those of you falling over yourselves to heap praise could spare a thought for the hospital porter, care worker, underpaid nurse or office cleaner who starts her shift as her children arrive home.

The Police have a tough job but lets keep some perspective here.

The cop attending the scene is only part of the chain the the body will go through - undertakers handle and remove the body to the mortuary where it is then prepared for post mortem by technicians and then examined by the pathologist and the undertakers then sort for burial/cremation - all have their own issues when dealing with these types of job and eal with them on a more regular basis. Probably one of the worst parts I found was having to break in then search room by room for the body.

Edited by Bigends on Saturday 27th June 13:03

[DoubleSix]

Bigends said:

DoubleSix said:

dingg said:

^^^

its ONLY a job - get over it.

if you don't want to do it

DO SOMETHING ELSE - someone WILL step into your place.

Whilst I probably wouldn't have the gumption to put it quite like that I kind of get what this chap is saying.

Society is full of unsung heroes, many of whom don't have the weight of the law at their disposal and whom quietly do very challenging jobs.

Police do seem to like to remind us all how lucky we are to have them and the OP's post is only just the right side of indulgent if I may be forgiven for saying so. A rotting cadaver isn't fun, but as in the example I gave earlier I personally don't think it compares to what many other people do on a daily basis without recognition in modern UK - and to be fair to Dibble he also said as much too.

Perhaps those of you falling over yourselves to heap praise could spare a thought for the hospital porter, care worker, underpaid nurse or office cleaner who starts her shift as her children arrive home.

The Police have a tough job but lets keep some perspective here.

The cop attending the scene is only part of the chain the the body will go through - undertakers handle and remove the body to the mortuary where it is then prepared for post mortem by technicians and then examined by the pathologist and the undertakers then sort for burial/cremation - all have their own issues when dealing with these types of job and eal with them on a more regular basis. Probably one of the worst parts is having to break in then search room by room for the body.

Well perhaps, perhaps not. But we could all play Ghastly Job Top Trumps for next few pages quite easily I'm sure.

I know a few surgeons who have saved countless live - you wouldn't know it. I know lots of nurses whom I admire greatly, any praise is met with "it's just what we do". And on, and on etc etc

But a Policeman will rarely let it be forgotten what an important job they job imho. Sorry, for not falling in line.

[0a]

DoubleSix said:

Well perhaps, perhaps not. But we could all play Ghastly Job Top Trumps for next few pages quite easily I'm sure.

I know a few surgeons who have saved countless live - you wouldn't know it. I know lots of nurses whom I admire greatly, any praise is met with "it's just what we do". And on, and on etc etc

But a Policeman will rarely let it be forgotten what an important job they job imho. Sorry, for not falling in line.

My line of work is E-commerce. The only time I have been close to death is visiting my great uncle who had died a few hours earlier and pissed himself, and paying my respects to my Grandfather in the funeral home. Both pretty 'neat deaths' though.

I welcome the OP's post. Brain surgeons and nurses are welcome to post as well!

[Mk3Spitfire]

DoubleSix said:

Well perhaps, perhaps not. But we could all play Ghastly Job Top Trumps for next few pages quite easily I'm sure.

I know a few surgeons who have saved countless live - you wouldn't know it. I know lots of nurses whom I admire greatly, any praise is met with "it's just what we do". And on, and on etc etc

But a Policeman will rarely let it be forgotten what an important job they job imho. Sorry, for not falling in line.

Oh, you're falling in line just fine. The same line as the rest of the idiots who haven't really a clue what they're talking about. Out of the tens of thousands of police in the uk, you've spoken to enough to justify the juvenile concept that "policemen will rarely let it be forgotten what an important job" etc etc?

[GloverMart]

dingg said:

you officers are ALL taking it too personal

if you do not like the job

DO SOMETHING ELSE

someone else will fill your boots.

Give it a rest, nobody asked for you to post this drivel time and again.

By all means have your opinion but you are spoiling what is a fascinating thread by your childish posts.

To others... yes I understand that people in other occupations have equally "gory" jobs but they haven't posted a thread yet. If and when they do, I hope that the replies they get to their OP are like the majority of those in the first page of this thread and not some of the later ones.

Edited by GloverMart on Saturday 27th June 13:43

[Big Pants]

Thanks Dibble, both for sharing Paul's story and for the frank and helpful support for the importance of good mental health.

And a big thumbs up to all blue light and emergency workers who I hope never to need assistance from. I'm glad you're there.