A mixed bag

After a hectic week at home, this weekend sees me covering nights. Last night saw me attending a variety of incidents to support the crews in the local area.

Next week sees the Poole Harbour Islands Safety Group table top exercise, this is  the culmination of several months of planning and work by the directing team. All the last minute preparations have been done so hopefully there is nothing we have forgotten.I will let you know how it goes next week.
I also have all my pre- course learning ready for my Operational and Tactical Commander recertification course in a fortnight , a bit of light bed time reading.

As I am sat here writing this we are already well in to the month of February and on the south coast where I live there are already signs of spring and its a lovely sunny afternoon.It is half term this week and there seem to be plenty of visitors around and soon we will be welcoming visitors for Easter and then the summer season. Time flies!! Two thing this also means is the start of the speedway season and Poole Quay Bike nights yeah!!!

More and more emergency and voluntary services are using social media to inform the public what they are up to day to day. I follow several of the local road police units and individual officers and whilst it encouraging to see the number of arrests made for drink driving and drug driving it is also worrying to see how apparently common theses crimes are. Throw in mobile phone offences, speeding and driving without insurance or without a licence and the trend looks even worse. I hope some of this is down to the higher level of publicity being achieved through the use of social media. This publicity will however hopefully get the message across that you stand a high chance of getting caught if you are up to no good.

Both the picture below are from Dorset Road policing units today!

81mph in a 50 limit will see this driver off to court

A positive drugs test saw this driver off to custody

It is great to see critical care being provided by the Doctors and Critical Care Paramedics of the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance during the hours of darkness when the helicopter is not able to fly. Swapping the the big yellow helicopter for four wheels sees the team bringing all their skills and procedures to patients across the county, this can only lead to improved patient care and outcomes Nice to catch up with last nights team at the local hospital.

Please remember that Air Ambulances in the UK are entirely funded by voluntary contributions so if you are able to help please donate to keep these vital services in the air.

As it says on the tin..........

Until next week stay safe.