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Published 12 May 2010 12:00
A DIVERSITY handbook running to 140 pages produced by ACPOS (Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland) advises police officers when assisting disabled people not to lean on a wheelchair as it may move!
It is just as well I did not know that when I came across a man in Knightswood stuck in a wheelchair half on and half off the kerb - almost like the mini car in the film "The Italian Job".
Oh dear, the only solution was to make the wheelchair move - contrary to the rules.
A simple push from me, and whizz, the man gratefully sped on his way in his electric-powered chair.
The by-the-book emergency services would have ended up sending for each other - like the Dad's Army film - while the poor man's future hung in the balance.
The dithering Dad's Army scenario is not so funny when we consider life-threatening rescues in mines and rivers or someone stuck up a tree.
It is all this PC madness we need rescued from - rapidly!
Andrew Forsyth, Knightswood
This letter appeared in Clydebank Post 12 May 10
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