These are my boots. Since I graduated from the police academy, I have worn them for every shift, and they have seen everything I have seen, and worse.
They’ve trod in vomit and wee, dog poo, horse poo, cow poo and human poo.
They’ve trod in the blood of the dead, the dying and the seriously injured.
They’ve protected me from the broken glass, oil and jagged metal of shattered vehicles.
They’ve been with me when I’ve saved lives, and when I’ve had to let people go... sometimes for the greater good of others that needed saving.
They’ve seen the very best of humanity, but they’ve also seen the very worst.
They’ve seen the moments of life changing sadness of those left behind; wives and husbands, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers... some of them to children.
If my boots could talk, they could tell stories that would make your toes curl.
If they had a conscience, you would sometimes hear them cry at night trying to outrun the sadness they have seen.
Boots don’t talk, but sometimes those who wear them should.
It’s okay to not be okay.
#loveyourboots #suicideawareness #itsokaytonotbeokay
[Original post written by Adam Collinge — a paramedic from the UK] ... See MoreSee Less
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This is the most outrageous thing I’ve ever heard of. POLICE PAID OVERTIME TO TAKE JUVENILE OFFENDERS FISHING AND TO SPORTING EVENTS 😡. All that ‘overtime’ money 💰, yet our police are still working endless hours of unpaid overtime to get court paperwork completed. To be clear, I refer to the paperwork generated by these grubs in the first place, to put them before the court and try and keep them behind bars. Any copper will tell you how overtime is rarely approved when a court brief is due but you’ve been too busy to attend to your correspondence on shift. The reaction you get is like you’ve asked for the boss’s first born child or a kidney! I worked in my own time ALL THE TIME without remuneration. Maybe the Government should be paying overtime for that purpose and to support our police with staffing and resources, rather than to reward bad behaviour of juvenile offenders 🤔. www.facebook.com/90004797701/posts/10157198792732702?sfns=mo ... See MoreSee Less
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