Submitted on Saturday 3rd March 2018
Rejected on Monday 12th March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
A special offence created to protect emergency service staff when working.
Recent reports of verbal physical and written abuse of emergency service staff while working. These people have elected to protect society and should be protected by that society rather than be subject of abuse or assault for that decision.
News reports are showing more and more abuse of emergency service staff while working. Police are protected by legislation as seperate offence for other emergency staff would send a message. Offences such as aggravated burglary allow for mandated stricted penalties for existing offences in special situations. Society has an obligation to protect those that protect society
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/209642
You might also like to know about the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill, which is being considered by Parliament. The Bill plans to introduce a new offence of attacking an emergency worker while they are doing their job and increase the maximum sentence.
You can find out more about the Bill here:
services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/assaultsonemergencyworkersoffences.html
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