When to contact the Police?

[admin]

Which PCT was it? You could find out which person is responsible for controlled drugs, and put it in writing to them. (For Hull PCT, it's Sue Butler, the medical director. I'm not sure about East Riding PCT).

It wasn't actually Hull. I'd rather not say which town it was in!

[admin]

I wonder what the point is, my three 'incidents': one shooting in the shop, once threatened by two blokes with a baseball bat and an assistant with a syringe of blood held to her neck resulted in hours spent giving statements and no charges brought in any case...

difficult not to get dissillusioned, but you did the right thing Elaine.

Graham

Thanks Graham

I haven't been threatened in quite the same way as you, but I've had a few little scraps and once held a young woman on the floor for ten minutes whilst the police arrived. I've had a syringe full of blood pointed at me a few times, but fortunately not at my neck - that's got to be a serious assault charge, surely???

One of the times I went to court a woman was found guilty of as I recall: -

1. Breaking her ASBO
2. Shop lifting
3. Assault
4. Possession of heroin
5. Criminal damage

The sentence - a £40 fine. I'm not going again unless it's a gun!

[johnep]

And how much did the day cost you? More than £40 I bet.
johnep

[DavidS]

After reading this, I must say in future I will be insisting the doctor phones the police, as I would have no actual evidence a crime was committed. I'd take a copy and drop the script off. If the doctor didn't report it I might draw the attention of the PCT to it. After all, who is the one who can say the script was altered? Not the observant pharmacist. We are just the detectives.

[admin]

And how much did the day cost you? More than £40 I bet.
johnep

Yes it did cost more then £40 of course.

The way the PCT guy said I had to do it to protect myself is what's annoying. The GP’s never seem to need to be protected do they? It's ok to say you won't call the police in the future David, but you're leaving yourself open to attack from the itchy trigger squad there in my opinion.

[DavidS]

but you're leaving yourself open to attack from the itchy trigger squad there in my opinion.

nothing a bit of daktacort won't sort out

[bobbin]

Thanks Graham

I haven't been threatened in quite the same way as you, but I've had a few little scraps and once held a young woman on the floor for ten minutes whilst the police arrived. I've had a syringe full of blood pointed at me a few times, but fortunately not at my neck - that's got to be a serious assault charge, surely???

One of the times I went to court a woman was found guilty of as I recall: -

1. Breaking her ASBO
2. Shop lifting
3. Assault
4. Possession of heroin
5. Criminal damage

The sentence - a £40 fine. I'm not going again unless it's a gun!

Seriously admin, you need to find some nicer pharmacies to work at! Any pharmacy with more than a handful of addicts tends to be bad news IMO.

[howe928]

I was going to put that Zogs but I haven't a drug tariff at home and was 99% sure it went to the contractors and not me. The point is really that this person is now on two lots of drugs, I have extra hassle at work, I got no back up and have been made to look a fool.

Having been told I had to do this to "protect" myself is rubbing salt in, as we all know who has the itchy trigger finger on us for whatever we do.

always make a copy of the script if you are suspecting anything, the recommended action to take is to confirm the script problem, once confirmed ring police and keep the person involved until police arrived, give evidence, write up an incident report and send it to relevant authority, then your job is done (do not worry about scripts piling up, these can be checked later or tomorrow otherwise you might get into trouble by not following company procedure or someting like that) normally i would imagine fraudster would be banned from the surgery and pharmacy

Main thing is do not put yourself at risk, give in to what they want if they were not worth fighting for. Some comapny procedure will ask you to talk rationally with person involved, at that moment, i believed the procedures just a ridiculous thing to followed e.g. politely ask shoplifter to stay here with the stocks they intended to take away without paying and wait for the police to come to be arrested and no one would do that in real life. Do not chase them and hold them on the floor as they may sue you for assault.

shoplifters always get away with their crime and they come back to do the same things because there is nothing out there to stop them

[Defblade]

politely ask shoplifter to stay here with the stocks they intended to take away without paying and wait for the police to come to be arrested and no one would do that in real life.

They do stay and wait for the police if asked politely (frequently, when I worked in less nice places) when you're as big as me

I've had a lot of people look me up and down and visibly decide against it......

[howe928]

They do stay and wait for the police if asked politely (frequently, when I worked in less nice places) when you're as big as me

I've had a lot of people look me up and down and visibly decide against it......

ok, i take my words back

i launched myself to them and we ended up on the floor, not doing that anymore, help yourself