Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Softly softies
The police are often held up as a bastion of good communication practice. Police press officers have to deal with life and death communication dilemmas every day - road accidents, manhunts and the like.
So how come Christmas seems to have come early for the criminal element, if some police spokespeople's recent comments are to be taken seriously?
Nottingham's deputy chief constable seems to be encouraging the prescription of heroin to heroin addicts. Surely a bit of a pisser for those in the business of supply?
And the chief constable of Dyfed-Powys reckons under-age sex shouldn't necessarily constitute paeodophilia. He later backpeddled on the remark, but it hardly exemplifies the way the police normally hold their own in front of the microphones.
Who knows what's at the root of these remarks. But if they are the outcome of deliberate PR ploys, then surely someone needs to go back to PR basics. Permalink |
The police are often held up as a bastion of good communication practice. Police press officers have to deal with life and death communication dilemmas every day - road accidents, manhunts and the like.
So how come Christmas seems to have come early for the criminal element, if some police spokespeople's recent comments are to be taken seriously?
Nottingham's deputy chief constable seems to be encouraging the prescription of heroin to heroin addicts. Surely a bit of a pisser for those in the business of supply?
And the chief constable of Dyfed-Powys reckons under-age sex shouldn't necessarily constitute paeodophilia. He later backpeddled on the remark, but it hardly exemplifies the way the police normally hold their own in front of the microphones.
Who knows what's at the root of these remarks. But if they are the outcome of deliberate PR ploys, then surely someone needs to go back to PR basics. Permalink |
Comments:
Good points, Wadds. Too many public and private bodies engage their mouths before their brains without thinking about the consequences. Whither Rattner?
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