Fire Law Blog Fire Service and Public Safety Legal Issues Blog by Curt Varone
The facts are not all in, but it appears we have another instance of police fire wars, this time in South Africa. Dave Statter is on this so there’s no need to repeat it all here – but what we know is:
Paramedic Garth Andrew Van Zyl was arrested at the scene of a vehicle accident on Tuesday following a confrontation with police officers. Van Zyl was apparently questioning why one officer was refusing to address traffic control and the officer replied “you don’t come here and tell me what to do” and “this is my scene and you don’t belong here, I give the orders here”.
It went downhill from there….. Sounds SOOOoooooo familiar….
