Explain The Importance Of Volunteering In The Public Services.

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Unit 33: Volunteering In the Public Services Contents... 1 Police specials.. 1.1 What they do? The police specials constabulary is a volunteering organisation. The duties carried out by a Special officer are essentially the same as those carried out by any regular police officer. Generally Specials will support regular officers by patrolling on foot or in a car, alone, with another special, or with a regular.Police specials only normally work part time. There are nearly 20,000 specials alone serving in the UK they do everything a regular officer would do, apart from doing it for free because it is something they like doing. 1.2 Where do they do it? The police specials are based in all different local communities, it just depends where they get put. Durham policing area covers 26 small…show more content…
They work up the mountains but not all the time as they are only on call so as soon as a call comes up they will go to their base and collect all the equipment they need before going up and helping the people that could be injured. 3.3 When do they do it? Mountain rescue team also work in their spare time, and are on call 24/7. Groups of the team will take turns to be on call because everyone will have different spare time during the week. 3.4 Why is it important to the services? The mountain rescue team are important to the public services because they have been involved with 40 callouts in the past 12 months to save lives and give them the help they needed. Therefore if they didn’t go and they were no ambulances available or any other kind of help their lives could have been at risk or they could have been stuck or lost for a long time. 10.20 20/12/2014 Team Call Out. ‘Search in Chester-le-Street area for a high risk missing from home. 12 searchers plus a mountain rescue search dog and mountain rescue canoe group spent 6 hours covering woodland, fields and the River Wear.’ 4 The Salvation Army.. 4.1 What do they

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