Protection of Ambulance Crews & NHS Staff

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

Bring in legislation that enables severe fixed penalties to apply & or imprisonment or an ability to perpetually refuse treatment to anyone maliciously harming our NHS staff including (Ambulance Crews).

It is immoral & unethical these people should endure such treatment when trying to offer help! These people deserve our protection. They deserve as safe as an environment as we can create. This will help reduce the offences & save the public money if staff do not need time off to recover from such unacceptable violent conduct. All should all be given technology support to record offensive behaviours to enable successful prosecutions. Fair treatment should be given to our modern day "angels"

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

It is already the case that emergency workers, such as people working with ambulances for the NHS, are protected by law if they face assault or harm at work. They're protected by "The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018", among other laws.

Part of the Act provides that anyone found guilty of common assault or battery against an emergency worker could be imprisoned for up to twelve months or fined, or both.

You can read more about the Government's position on this here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-equality-statements/assault-on-emergency-workers-in-the-police-crime-sentencing-courts-bill-equalities-impact-assessment

You could start a petition asking the Government to increase the penalty for assaulting an emergency worker.

Timeline

1 Oct 2022	Petition opened for signatures
4 Oct 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Oct 2022

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