Comments on: Police Union Boss is right – cops need far more mental health welfare

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:45:57 +0000

I think police have a hard time and very different from the version that Leslie Thomas dealt with when he was at a Barnados Orphanage in UK post war. He ran away and was missing for a while but no-one went after him with guns, and eventually he turned up at a station and told them he had run away and was giving up. So they spoke a little to him gave him a cup of tea and food, and a cell for the night and returned him to the Boys Home where he got a telling off. He became a famous author.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:00:33 +0000

In reply to Pat O'Dea. Never the less we need them on our side all pulling together as one.

By: Mohammed Khan

Mohammed Khan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:28:43 +0000

Indeed. Police need training so that they have a rudimentary understanding of the law and can shoot well enough that they can stop murdering people for no reason. Continuing to not do this is just irresponsible

By: Pat O'Dea

Pat O'Dea — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:19:47 +0000

If our state forces, police/military are forced to go down the same path as US state forces, then we are all in for a rough ride.

By: Pat O'Dea

Pat O'Dea — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:55:35 +0000

National’s war against ‘Woke Policing’ wouldn’t have helped. Human decency, ‘Wokeness’ is humanities default position, soldiers police and para-militaries have to have it drilled out of them.
But it comes at a cost in mental health.
Personally, I have preferred the gentler Woke policing that followed in the wake of the ‘Terror raids; on Tuhoe.
And I am sure that it was kinder on the police themselves as well.
The new macho policiing policy will take a toll on the polce and the and the public and the police will need all the therapy they can get.