{"id":4003,"date":"2018-01-25T17:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2018-01-29T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:26:17","slug":"double-crewing-makes-officers-more-proactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=4003","title":{"rendered":"Double-crewing makes officers more proactive"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\np.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545}\np.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #454545; min-height: 17.0px}\nspan.s1 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #e4af09}\n--><\/style>\n<p>DOUBLE-crewing not only provides Essex Police officers with better protection from attacks, but also makes officers more proactive, the force\u2019s Federation has said.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Steve Taylor (pictured) was speaking after national research showed that officers were much more vulnerable to assault when working alone \u2013 and that the majority of officers are usually single crewed.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Steve said: \u201cBeing double crewed doesn\u2019t give an officer complete protection from abuse or assault. It is important to make that point. But what I can absolutely say is, officers are more proactively productive when they\u2019re double crewed. Officers feel safer and are prepared to give that little bit more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are running from job to job and you see the car that doesn\u2019t quite look right and you\u2019re on your own. Really? Are you going to stop it? You\u2019ve got jobs coming out of your ears. You\u2019re probably going to crack on with what you\u2019ve got on your plate. When you\u2019re double crewed you\u2019re more inclined to be more intrusive, to be more proactive. And those benefits are clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a welfare point of view, knowing that someone\u2019s got your back, knowing that you\u2019re not on your own, enables you to make the right decisions and follow through. Whereas when you\u2019re single crewed sometimes discretion is the better part of valour, and you have to live to fight another day \u2013 rather than put your own personal safety at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve said the Federation understands why Essex Police has to employ single crewing \u2013 under the name \u201csafe crewing\u201d \u2013 as \u201can evil that the force deems to be necessary\u201d but called for it to enable more officers to work in pairs for greater protection.<\/p>\n<p>A national survey from the Police Federation of England and Wales found that 73% of officers were single crewed \u201coften or always\u201d in the past 12 months, and that seven in 10 were verbally assaulted, more than half were verbally threatened and two in five became the victim of an unarmed physical attack at least once per month.<\/p>\n<p>The study \u2013 \u2018Single Crewing in English and Welsh Policing: Frequency and Associations with Violence Towards and Injuries in Officers\u2019 canvassed the views of 11,397 officers from 43 territorial forces. You can see the results here: <a href=\"%22h\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2017.1417990<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOUBLE-crewing not only provides Essex Police officers with better protection from attacks, but also makes officers more proactive, the force\u2019s Federation has said. 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