Property News · May 21, 2016

Rookies and veterans: tell us what you've learnt at work


Whether you’re new to the profession or have years of experience behind you we’d like to hear your experiencesExperienced priests, police officers, nurses and others have shared their wisdom with the new kids on the block for a feature for guardian Weekend magazine.Detective chief superintendent Sue Scott, 49, joined Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1985 and retired in December 2015. “When I joined, you wouldn’t show emotion, just as a self-preservation mechanism. My role models were either austere, autocratic men or women who looked and operated like men, and I don’t think that helped. Perhaps that’s how we got ourselves into that ‘us and them’ position with the public. When I started, the attitude was very much, ‘We’re the police, we know best.’ We’re much better at listening now.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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