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| Subject: Ambulance officers under attack: useless OZschwitz judges accused of failing paramedics Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:19 pm | |
| Judges have been accused of failing frontline paramedics by repeatedly allowing violent attackers to walk free or escape with soft sentences.
In 2010, the NSW Government created tougher sentencing laws to provide better protection to ambulance staff facing an increasing threat of vicious assaults. The centrepiece of those much-publicised reforms was a maximum five-year jail term for people engaging in acts of violence against paramedics. But, as a Fairfax investigation revealed on Sunday, the full penalty has never been imposed by the courts, with many offenders having to pay only small fines.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ambulance-officers-under-attack-judges-accused-of-failing-paramedics-20150208-138y4p.html |
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