Graveyard shifts endanger new recruits
Jane's Police Review, 28 March 2007
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"FORCES must do more at the early stages of an officer's career to ensure new recruits are aware of the health and safety implications of their working shifts, the police federation has warned. Paul Lewis, secretary of the Police Federation of England and Wales' health and safety committee, said student officers need to be made aware of the wear and tear shift patterns can cause. His comments follow an inquest into the death of a young female Lincolnshire Police officer who was killed in a car crash after falling asleep at the wheel on the way home from her first night shift." [Sub required]