by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
A young man asked if he could stay with us as he was being followed by two men who were intent on beating him up. We managed to keep him safe, despite one of the men slapping him once, and we saw him safely into a taxi – grateful thanks and waves as the taxi drove...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We were on patrol at about 3.30 am on a very cold night when we came across a young man on the floor against a wall. The three of us got him standing more or less upright, with added support of said building. He was, as one would say, “under the weather”. I have never...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
From one of our Friday Roving patrols: We stopped to chat to a lady in Ernesettle who had a family issue going on and she also told us about other occurrences in her life. We just listened. She said at one stage that she couldn’t believe that she was telling a group...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
Every one of our teams carries a record card. The figures from just one recent Saturday tell their own stories: 1 Emergency Services called 2 First Aid given 2 Racist incidents 3 Advice / Reassurance / Directions 5 Space blankets / ponchos 2 Pairs of flip flops given...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We came across a lady in a rather distressed state, no trousers on, had had two fits, no keys to get in to her home to get her Methodone or Valium. She had been hurt from a fall and indicated that she wanted to kill herself. Her morale was definitely very low, hated...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We came across a man lying on the pavement who told us that he was fine; it was just that he’d decided to go to sleep there! All our efforts to persuade him otherwise fell on deaf ears – he was adamant that he wasn’t going to move. We felt we had no choice but to...
