7:10am Tuesday 9th February 2010
WE recognise the police and other emergency services are damned either way when it comes to deciding an appropriate response to 999 calls.
But we cannot help wondering whether the response to reports of a man on St Andrew’s Spire in Worcester was a little over the top.
The police helicopter, 11 officers and the fire brigade were called out and Deansway, one of the city’s busiest roads, was closed.
There had been a man on the spire. He was working for the council carrying out routine maintenance checks but was long gone before the emergency services arrived.
Surely there was someone from the council available to reassure the police? If there wasn’t, then there should have been. We dread to think how much public money was spent during Sunday night’s operation.
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