Posted on 02/19/2014 5:17:27 AM PST by managusta
These are the two ‘petite’ firearms officers set to receive payouts of £35,000 each after complaining their guns were too big for their small hands.
Pictured for the first time, Victoria Wheatley and Rachael Giles won a sex discrimination case on the grounds they could not reach the trigger.
Both claimed their reputations were damaged because their unsuitable equipment - a Glock 17 - meant they received lower marks than men in firing range tests.
They also said protective gear was too big for their small heads and legs and they were too short for a wooden barricade used as a resting place for the firearms.
Miss Giles said in a witness statement: ‘All this has led to extreme distress. The stress has caused significant problems to my health.’
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
In December last year it emerged a police community support officer who injured her knee while investigating a burglary was awarded £4,000 in compensation.
Pauline Harrison, 53, was responding to a 999 call reporting a break-in at a derelict school when she fell over a 3ft-high wooden fence.
And in April last year, a policeman was paid £8,000 compensation after being bitten by fleas while at work.
The extraordinary injury claim was made after colleagues complained that their police station in Birmingham had become infested with the insects.
It was one of a number of workplace injury claims paid by West Midlands Police which had spent £900,000 settling cases made by more than 50 policemen in three years.
And WPC Kelly Jones triggered public outrage and criticism from her own chief constable last year for suing a burglary victim for £50,000 after tripping over a kerb.
Other claims include a police officer awarded £16,610 in compensation after he fell over a pile of blankets while chasing a suspect."
In the late 70’s as an E-5 going to a navy school in San Diego I was assigned shore patrol duty on base several times. One night my duty was to walk around the women’s barracks, known as the wave cage back then, accompanied by a a woman also assigned this duty. We were each issued a night stick and a belt to hold it. Unfortunately for Sheila, the distance between her waist and the ground was less than the length of the nightstick causing it to drag on the ground as we walked the perimeter. She had to carry it over her shoulder which meant it was “upholstered” which was against regulations as you were only to take it out if you needed to defend yourself. Maybe she could have sued based on this trigger is to far to reach verdict.
"Common sense" is only relevant when the Left wants to demagogue something.
A G17 is big?
lol
No, their little girly hands were too petite for a real cop gun.
(I’m sure the Chinese Army will cut our PC military similar breaks due to their respect for our socially inclusive policy of putting women into ground infantry combat.)
I’m sure their distress related health problems will be made better with the additional tax dollars coming their way.
I’m sure their distress related health problems will be made better with the additional tax dollars coming their way.
Er, tax pounds I should have said.
I would agree -- their brains were missing the gray matter required to find another line of work.
I was wondering as I read this if the authorities had figured out a way to make the criminals give the unqualified girls a handicap when they are being arrested.
How long have police been carrying guns in Britain?
Instead of giving them a fortune could they maybe just have bought them smaller guns, or even just said “Our mistake, you don’t meet the physical qualifications for the job” (hands big enough to hold the standard issue sidearm)?
Probably since they disarmed their masters. It’s upside-down-ville over there now. Servants carrying, masters disarmed. I bet it was a much nicer place to live when they had everyone’s place in society right.
The Civil Nuclear Police, MoD (Ministry of Defence) Police and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are routinely armed. Other Constabularies have specialist firearms units which are deployed in specific instances where a suspect is reported to be armed.
As for the story itself, we really need to ditch this PC nonsense that requires institutions such as the police/military to accommodate people whose physical size/ability inhibits their ability to do their job to the required standard. When I was younger, I wanted to join the Navy, but having epilepsy meant that I couldn’t. As a true patriot, I accepted this and did something else instead. If I was an egocentric jerk who cared more about his own sense of pride and ‘rights’ I suppose I could have sued the MoD for ‘discrimination’, but instead I took the view that the Navy was better off without me forcing myself in to become a defective cog in such a vital job where efficiency and being able to perform to a high standard whenever it is required can mean the difference between victory or defeat.
One in every two police officers are armed you will not see their weapons as they are holstered in special pockets in their jackets.
Special police cruisers usually used for motorway (freeway)patrols always carry semi-automatic rifles and H&K MP5’s, however these two were recruited as Nuclear Power Plant Police, and as such wear open holsters at work.
“Oi, let's go downtown and stress out some ov the constables, eh, droogies?”
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