Emergency Service Workers
- Submitted by: Liam Kerr, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 October 2018
- Motion reference: S5M-14497
- Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 07 November 2018
That the Parliament commends the bravery and dedication of emergency service workers in the north east and across the country; recognises what it sees as their extraordinary efforts to keep everyone safe, working long hours in often difficult circumstances; acknowledges that this can include heading towards danger when others are running away; understands that, in 2016-17, over 3,000 offences were committed against these workers, with attacks often carried out by the very people that they were trying to help; condemns such assaults; regards an attack on any emergency worker as an attack on society itself, and thanks all emergency workers with the police, fire, ambulance, search and rescue, prison and other services for all the work that they do.
Supported by:
Jeremy Balfour, Michelle Ballantyne, Bill Bowman, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Donald Cameron, Finlay Carson, Angela Constance, Maurice Corry, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Rhoda Grant, Jamie Greene, Daniel Johnson, Bill Kidd, Gordon Lindhurst, Dean Lockhart, Lewis Macdonald, Fulton MacGregor, Ruth Maguire, John Mason, Tom Mason, Liam McArthur, Elaine Smith, Alexander Stewart, Annie Wells