I have read John’s fascinating, poignant and honest story of his life whilst a Police Officer. The message is strong and clear; that here is a decent, honest and lovely man, suffering this breakdown due much to the work he has done. His honesty on his feelings can only give hope to others and remove the stigma of such mental problems that many suffer in silence. Be strong as John has been, talk about it and seek help.
The talk reminds me of Twilight Zone's Changing of the Guard third season episode 34. The contact was mental, teacher to students. The teacher was going to commit suicide but was reminded of the lessons imparted by the ghosts of his former students. Every meeting of another person always leaves its trace whether brief or over a period of time.
Its not an easy job but that's why the big salaries are paid. Also worth pointing out that the sort of officers he mentions (frontline, on shifts, in harms way frequently) is just a fraction of the overall police officer cohort. Many more of them hiding in office jobs, doing secretariat for "strategic meetings".
@@rboeyrt4054 £40,000 a year in the UK isn't a bad salary at all. Especially if you are an office based cop doing a job a staff member could do for half that amount.
British Army, Native Police, Border Police and New South Wales Mounted Police were utilised by the British to eliminate any Aboriginal resistance to this acquisition of land. However, it was often the responsibility of the pioneering colonists themselves to take the initiative in enforcing land ownership transferral. Usually this was done violently through the use of firearms to intimidate or kill the native people. Some colonists though, chose an alternative approach, using poison concealed in consumables as a method of extirpating the original custodians of the land. The tainted consumables were either knowingly given out to groups of native people, or purposely left in accessible places where they were taken away and eaten collectively by the local clans. As a result, incidents of mass deaths of Aboriginal Australians due to these deliberate mass poisonings occurred throughout the continent.[1][2] The mass poisonings were generally done in a secretive manner but there are many documented cases with some involving police and government investigations. They appear to have begun as a colonial method in Australia during the 1820s when toxic substances utilised in the sheep farming industry became readily available. Chemicals such as arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, aconitum and prussic acid were all used. There are no cases of convictions being reported against any of the perpetrators of these mass poisonings.
