what public service look for in a citizen, How issues may affect the public services - page 2
Keywords: Good Citizens army fire police natural disasters
By Gio on 05/03/2008
Level: BTEC National Diploma
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any citizen, all the watch has to work together to enable the fire to be put out or complete the activity in hand. Law abidance is another key factor that the fire service look for when recruiting because if citizens see fire fighters breaking the law then they will think they can.
What the Police Service looks for in a citizen
Law Abiding
Loyal
Honest
Trustworthy
Why are these important to the Police Service, the list above is important to the Police service because: Police officers are put in place to enforce the law and to punish those who do not abide by it so if police officers started to break the law then all the other citizens would follow which would therefore display bad citizenship. Police officers would have to be trustworthy especially when dealing with confidential information. Police officers have to be honest as they are expecting citizens to be honest and this is not leading the right way.
How issues may affect the public services:
Natural Disasters – Flooding
This Information was taken from BBC Website about the Boscastle Flooding. This was a very serious natural disaster and took lots of different services to bring everybody to safety.
Heavy storms 17th August 2004 afternoon caused 6cm (2ins) of rain to fall in two hours in the Boscastle area.
Seven rescue helicopters were scrambled to winch people stranded on rooftops and in cars to safety.
Rescue workers described the situation as "horrendous" as buildings and cars were washed into the sea, and up to 1,000 people may have to be evacuated.
Public Services said “This is the biggest combined incident we have had in many, many years”
A list of the Emergency Services Working as a team:
Fire and Rescue Service – Used boats, ladders to rescue people from their homes
RNLI – Use small D class boats to go into the flood and rescue people from homes or people that may of been stranded, they brought them to safety
Search & Rescue – Worked Day and night to get conclude the evacuation.
Police – The police co-ordinated the rescue operation from their headquarters and appealed for sightseers to stay away from the area.
RAF – Provided 7 helicopters for the rescue operation and airlifted casualties to the local hospital
Paramedics – Treated people who had been caught up in the floods.
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