Protecting public service from abuse

Attacks on public servants are not new, but sadly, they seem to increase exponentially in these modern times.

Front-line providers  – teachers, school principals, police, paramedics, nurses, hospital orderlies and support staff in government departments – are increasingly on the receiving end of vile and abusive behaviours.

The matter needs to be addressed, but will the government elected on August 24 meaningfully address the issue, or will it succumb to the noisy minority interest group brigade and let it go through to the keeper?

Unfortunately, present rhetoric is unlikely to translate into action outcomes.

Abuse of public servants and those delivering front line services is going from bad to worse.