Some suggestions for drastic changes in the law.
1. Instant, compulsory, guaranteed life in prison (*c) sentence for any murder of a community staff. I don’t include inpatient staff in this, only because sectioned patients are harder to send to prison and other disposals are available. 37/41 at minimum IMHO.
*c) Oh, alright, I suppose should allow for the McNaughton defence because some will have been genuinely crackers but my educated guess is most would be ASPD scrotes, not mad.
2. Instant no-questions-asked compensation and pension for the surviving family.
3. Precisely zero get-out-of-jail free cards for the scrote. No loopholes for even the smarmiest of barristers to manipulate. Nor heart-tugging pleas of ‘my client is stricken with remorse and will never, ever do it again, honest guv.’
4. For violence less than murder, there should be lesser punishments that still HURT. E.g. prosecution, admission, custodials, corporal punishment, eye watering fines that go straight to the victim’s/nurse’s bank account.
Knives and weapons. I remember scores more examples but here are two good ones. i. Searching a bag brought in by a patient’s teenage daughter we found this –
to be used on a night shift to threaten staff with to be let out.
ii. A tall, strong, highly paranoid patient got transferred to a ward closer to home. On a monitoring visit, our staff became concerned at the casual way their staff were judging his dangerousness. They searched his bedroom and found a hammer under the bed.
Possession of those weapons alone should result in instant transfer to the next level of security, e.g. from low to medium secure. They don’t like that. They consider it a punishment, even though just speaking the horrid word out loud causes spontaneous bedwetting in our woke female managers.
The patients watching the punishment find themselves instantly and strongly dissuaded from acting similarly. Some of them feel a lot safer now because they knew, but daren’t tell the staff. You see, scrotes have no compunctions about using punishment. They know it works.
In Britain’s secure psych services, you’ll find a certain percentage of criminal scrotes, drug takers, ASPDs, gang members/prospects. The percentage of whites does not match national racial distribution. On the streets, these have a modicum of power and influence. They sometimes even have a treatable illness. They don’t like being locked up in places where they are denied (*d) drugs, alcohol and coerced or starstruck teenage pussy.
*d) This highlights yet another legacy problem caused by the special-pleading of criminal loving lobbyists which have made punishments weaker and weaker. Our courageous governments, from Major onwards, have reduced Prison Officer into such a crap, over-regulated, poorly paid, unpopular job that any dickhead can be appointed. Those dickheads soon become owned by criminal gangs and smuggle contraband in. (Not to mention female P.O.s and even psychologists who find their gussets dripping around all those bad boys and become corrupted by c*ck.) So far as I know they cannot yet smuggle in starstruck teenage pussy but read this horrifying story about the inventiveness of paedophiles in a high security bin combined with indulgent management.
5. The return of full on C&R training like it used to be, for inpatient staff of course, but for community teams, especially assertive outreach. Jettison with extreme prejudice the current, pathetic, watered down versions of C&R training.
J’accuse vous, BILD.
It is absolutely possible to train a scrote to behave by the consistent application of C&R to every single outburst of violence and aggression. (*e) I’ve seen it done, many times, but I’m not telling you where, how or by whom.
6. Full staffing complements which must specify the minimum number of men required to safely staff each specific unit. On days when said minimum isn’t reached, male managers and non-jobs must be moved onto the wards for that shift. Re-calibrate mental nurse training to attract and retain men. Stop teaching silly headed young women all they need to prevent violence is to be empathic. There is a legitimate place for a small number of qualified female nurses in forensic units. Their value and skills are for another post. But they cannot fight or defend themselves from male violence. They shouldn’t have to. They shouldn’t be deceived into believing they can. The Manchester airport scrote attack is instructive *f). Back before PC was re-named Woke, women and men knew what they could and couldn’t handle.
I once attended a pre-call to a ward in a female secure unit. The female nurses knew – by knowing your patient – this woman was building up to kick off. They knew if they let her instigate it someone would get injured. So the NIC phoned around for men from nearby wards to quietly assemble outside. When there were enough, we went in, she attacked, we handled it safely and professionally, handed our holds over to the female nurses who took over. No-one was hurt, including the patient. Back then we didn’t have to tick a box confirming her feelings weren’t hurt.
*e) Trigger warning for Toynbees. One place I worked had an impressive response to alarms. It always made me feel safer to see a dozen big lads come pouring down the corridor, psyched up for action, even if by then we’d got control. It gave the violent patients second thoughts too.
I worked one ward which had another ward on the floor underneath. A patient – for whom even Mother Theresa wouldn’t feel sympathy for once she knew his offence – had an annoying habit of telling staff they couldn’t touch him and ‘I know my rights’. Downstairs, all they heard was a bang as a body hit the deck. We didn’t pull our alarms – no need — but next thing we saw was staff from downstairs turning up in numbers, just in case. Staff looking out for each other.
*f) The superhero women fighting in Black Widow and Black Panther are fiction and (imho) require superhuman doses of suspension of disbelief to watch them.
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