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Sgt who asked for overtime shifts at call centre 'failed to log crash call'
Anon
The same situation is evident all over the UK. Officers plugging gaps with little to no training or mentoring in many different operational areas. It is a mixture of luck and a miracle that disasters do not occur every day. Proper accredited training with genuine assessment, evaluation and CPD to recognised standards is expensive. Consequently senior officers demand cheap "Quick Fixes" and cross their fingers that nothing goes south!
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Anon
The same situation is evident all over the UK. Officers plugging gaps with little to no training or mentoring in many different operational areas. It is a mixture of luck and a miracle that disasters do not occur every day. Proper accredited training with genuine assessment, evaluation and CPD to recognised standards is expensive. Consequently senior officers demand cheap "Quick Fixes" and cross their fingers that nothing goes south!
