Like the two Community Support Officers, could you just stand there and watch a little boy drown?

I am having to pinch myself when I think about that event.
If I was standing on a river bank and saw a little boy drowning, i don’t care what role I might be trying to fulfill, i would take my shoes and socks off and dive in.
Wouldn’t you?
They may have radiod for help, but there were two of them!
Am I the only one who cannot get my head round this?
Police officer, fireman, nurse, or ordinary Joe Public, does it matter who you are – surely you dive in? Don’t you?
I am very keen to hear from people on this.

well apparently the boy was not in site when they arrived? but is this just a cover story from the police to back each other up?
I agree – i think anyone would have tried to help – i personally cannot swim but if i saw someone in trouble i would try my hardest to help – even if that ment shouting my head off. Perhaps neither of them could swim, and where just thinking of their own safety. Although with two of them there they would have been there to back each other up.
Its really hard to judge when there were no other witnesses and its all to easy to say ” well id have done it this way……..”
The world is full of ifs buts and maybeas and no matter how many times its gone over that poor family have lost their beautiful child and my heart goes out to them. If i were in their position i too would be feeling angry and looking for answers, but im sure those two community officers are also having to come to terms with what happened and what the outcome may have been if things had been done differently.

Diving Deep

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