|
|
|
| NEWS > 07 November 2005 |
Other related articles:
Police chief to address accoun
SEATTLE -- Seattle police Chief Gil Kerlikowske is expected to address a mayor-appointed panel examining the department's police accountability system at a meeting on Aug. 20, the panel chairman announced Friday.
The Police Accountability and Review Panel plans to focus its second meeting on how the system is structured and how it works. The 11-member panel, which includes a retired judge, former governor and U.S. attorney, and other notable community leaders, was formed in the wake of a controversy over how certain misconduct cases were handled by the Office of Professional ... Read more
|
 Article sourced from
|
|
CBC News, Canada
07 November 2005
This article appeared in the above title/site.
To view it in its entirity click this link.
|
|
N. Ireland police want compens
More than 5,000 police officers who served in Northern Ireland have filed a class-action suit against the police department, seeking compensation for trauma they suffered during the Troubles.
They're asking for 100 million pounds – the equivalent of about $207 million – in the case, which is the largest group action ever seen in the region.
The officers, who are both serving and retired, are suing the chief constable in a case that began Monday in Belfast.
They accuse the force of failing to give them adequate support to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression.
They also say the force – then known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary – didn't prepare them sufficiently for the horrors they experienced during the violence that lasted from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s.
The officers aren't suing over the traumatic incidents themselves – they say they knew the risks going into the job – but they say the force failed to put appropriate measures in place to deal with predictable psychiatric and psychological consequences.
Many of them came under direct attack or repeatedly saw paramilitary members, soldiers, police or civilians die in front of them.
The lawyer who opened the case told the High Court that his clients want an acknowledgement that the mental suffering they endured was as debilitating as the gunshot wounds, maimings and other physical injuries endured by many of their colleagues.
The psychological suffering was just as damaging to their lives and led a number of people to kill themselves, Stephen Irwin said.
He called it a "system failure."
The case is expected to last for four months.
|
| |
 EiP Comments:
|
|---|
|
| |
* We have no wish to infringe the copyright of any newspaper or periodical. If you feel that we have done so then please contact us with the details and we will remove the article. The articles republished on this site are provided for the purposes of research , private study, criticism , review, and the reporting of current events' We have no wish to infringe the copyright of any newspaper , periodical or other works. If you feel that we have done so then please contact us with the details and where necessary we will remove the work concerned.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
 |
Ethics in Policing, based in the UK, provide information and advice about the following:
Policing Research | Police News articles | Police Corruption | International Policing | Police Web Sites | Police Forum | Policing Ethics | Police Journals | Police Publications |
|
| |
|
