The Case of the Police Failure to Save the Suicide Girl in the Water

The police were unable to save the girl from suicide, and there was a lot of resentment on both sides.

The police feel that we police officers are human beings, to rescue also have to ensure their own safety first. And then there’s the lack of training, lack of equipment, lack of personnel, the objective environment has no choice.

The public feels that, since you wear a police uniform to eat this bowl of rice, you definitely have to take some risks. For example, when faced with a knife-wielding assailant, a police officer must say, “I’ll guarantee my own safety first, and then we’ll wait until he gets tired of cutting.

In fact, every year, many police officers die in the line of duty, whether facing a mugger or a civilian in the water. What did the police say?

It’s not about giving up your seat on the bus, it’s about giving and not giving.

You see, both sides of the argument is not a little bit reasonable?

There are certain professions that require a certain amount of risk, such as soldiers, firefighters, and police officers. To what extent is this risk that these professions cannot afford to take?

When soldiers are at war, they often take greater risks. As I recall, American soldiers are allowed to refuse unreasonable orders, which means that a purely life-threatening mission with no chance of survival may be refused. I’m sure the militaries of modern countries have similar rules.

The same goes for firefighters and police officers.

Here we can deduce a baseline for risk-taking in these particular professions: the risk of having a chance of survival, with reasonable training, appropriate skills, and qualified equipment, is a tolerable baseline.

And I personally believe that most practitioners of these occupations are not going too far against the requirements of their profession.

With that as our standard, let’s look back at this matter, is there qualified training? Several people can’t swim. And swimming and water rescue training should probably be one of the basic training for this profession. I’m an electrician who knows CPR, but I can’t say you’re a doctor who doesn’t know how to do it.

Is there any qualified equipment? Water rescue equipment seems to be unavailable.

Is there any possibility of survival after rescue? History is not hypothetical, so it’s hard to say.

You see, it’s probably not appropriate to put the blame on the police officer in question. But are the people’s demands too much? Neither.

There are not enough police officers, they don’t get rotation training, but they can be found and detained for cursing a few words in WeChat to the traffic police, where does this police force come from?

Insufficient equipment, can not cope with the scene, but in some places motorcycles are Harley.

So once this happens, basic police officers and ordinary people are at each other’s throats, but the problem is neither solved by basic police officers nor understood by ordinary people.

So where does the problem lie?