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Who’s job is it to physically arrest wanted individuals? Who guards the crime scene? The prisoner? The victim? The witnesses? Who spends extensive hours gathering evidence? Who does all the hard work to secure a conviction? Who answers the phone when someone has an emergency?
Who safeguards vulnerable adults and children from harm? Who puts their body on the line often sustaining minor and sometimes serious injuries? Who gives bad news to families who’ve lost a loved one? Who guides victims through their cases?
Who maintains the peace? Who will give their lives for yours, without even knowing your name? Who gets exposed to extremely traumatic events nobody else would see? Who catches the burglars, the robbers, domestic abusers, rapists, pickpockets, Murderers, terrorists and Pedophiles?
The person in the seat in front of you on a bus, to your right at a football match, on the other table at a restaurant, the person who just cycled past, The person serving you at a shop who’s also a volunteer.
Police officers aren’t ‘different’. We’re very much the same as you. You don’t know that we’re all around you because we lead normal lives too.
We won’t ever stop being here and that’s in some way a good thing. We may be pushed away and possibly at one point in the future a step too far and when that day comes, innocent men, women and children will suffer unnecessarily because we couldn’t be there.
And maybe that’s when those that tore us down will realise what a huge mistake they’ve made... and by then it’ll be too late.
