Weekly Report 1– Saturday 20th August 2011
Statistical
Information
Two
teams of 3 Street Pastors patrolled from 10pm to
3am
14
Pairs of flip flops issued
10
bottles of water supplied
5
occasions where minor first aid was applied
6
calls from CCTV responded to
2
calls from police responded to
5
bottles/glasses picked up and made safe
2
situations calmed down
1
request for prayer
2
space blankets issued
62
significant conversations (means more than just an exchange of
greetings)
Narrative
Information
Working with
paramedic
We
were called to Corporation Street outside Envy to assist with a drunken male. We
arrived shortly after the paramedic and assisted him. The subject was vomiting
when we arrived, but then drifted into a semi-conscious state. Two (female)
members of the team cleaned up the subject and provided care to him whilst the
paramedic carried out his tests on the patient. The patient’s mates took
exception to the paramedics approach and verbally assaulted him. The third
member of the team (male) intervened and eventually calmed them down. The
patient was taken to hospital by ambulance after about 15 to 20 minutes. The
paramedic and the mates of the patient expressed their
thanks.
Calls from
CCTV/police
Virtually all the calls were in respect of people who were under
the influence of drink/drugs to the extent that some assistance was required to
get them into a situation where they would be looked after by friends and/or got
transport home. Each incident was successfully concluded and the methods
included; helping to provide physical support to get the subject into a taxi
with friends, sitting with the subject whilst he/she recovered enough to care
for him/herself, ensuring that accompanying friends were willing and capable to
assist the subject and keep them safe.
Food and
taxi outlets
We made
ourselves known to the staff in the fast food outlets and the taxi offices and
got the feeling that they valued our presence which would happen every Saturday
night from now onwards.
Conclusions
There
was a heavy shower of rain around 2am which moved people off the street. Our
estimates after conversations with the door staff along Corporation Street around 2.30am was that there may be
around 600 person left in the late night premises and we concluded that we
should end our patrol at 3am rather than 4am.
We felt that we had a good first night out. We were happy that we
were deployed to incidents where we could be of assistance and pleased to be a
part of the partnership approach. We were impressed by the way all the agencies
worked together for the common good and pleased to be a part of that
team.
