The Amsterdam fire brigade has announced a single artist, in writing, to blame for the shooting in the response of an ex-football player Kelvin Maynard. That’s one of the findings of nieuwspartner amsterdam tv channel AT5.
In all the documents of the Amsterdam fire-brigade, has been released following a freedom of information act request, in hard terms, that the chief of the photographing artist responsible for the “severely damaging to the reputation of the Fire department of Amsterdam-Amstelland, and to the shame of the trust and confidence of the citizens in a brandweerprofessional”.
Maynard was on the 18th of september last year and wound up near the Barracks, and Anton in the South. The car in which the former football player was in, and came to a stop at the fire station. A short time after the shooting, went on the internet pictures of the resuscitation of the victim. An independent detective agency carried out a survey into the origins of the photos.
In another letter, that will be the new fire chief Tijs van Lieshout, at the beginning of november, to the municipal council, sent for, he did not say how many firefighters are there to be punished should be, and what the punishment should be. A discharge was Van Lieshout’s excessive, but he stated that he was against the troops involved in a single disciplinary action would have to take”.
On the basis of the results of the detective, the chief decided to place the artist with a written reprimand and to give, as it seems right now.
in Addition, the punishment must be of the fire-fighters, together with seven other colleagues, who, at the time of the incident, any involvement in the incident, information on the primary schools. They are there to tell us what are the consequences of the shooting incident.
a Fire fighter and thought that it was a terrorist attack, was
The documents provide a glimpse into the actions of the firefighters during the incident to their military barracks. The artist, who’s pictures made during the investigation, stated that he thought that it was an attack that went on. He would, at the time of the incident, “full of adrenaline, to have been”.
in addition, the investigation of the fire after the incident was in the lead and has been told that he was in the photo was created and distributed. Also, the man at the front stepped in when the photos were released on the internet and in the news came out.
“You have the photos deleted from your phone, and there is nothing to be done,” says the chief, in a letter to the man. “It is only after the cluster manager on the 23rd of september to the barracks and asking questions, you are on the same day as the deputy commander, and it will be done. As you work with your colleagues to do it.”
When the news came out that the photos had been made of the cpr and the fireman, as well as be sure that the photos went up, he is in a panic, all of his cell phone, was removed. He did it in his own words, because he was afraid of the possible consequences of his actions. The new commander, thinking that this is due to the difficulty of the relationship between the old chief and the uitrukdienst.
The chief is to impose the lightest possible sentence to be appropriate, because there had been an “exceptional case”. The artist received a letter from the chief on 5th november of the previous year. As usual it will be a civil servant with the ability to make a complaint.
Fire: it should never be allowed to happen,
later that same night, e-mailed to the fire fighter, the chief is back, and drew the penalty that they will accept it. “It was just never allowed that to happen. This is what I want also from the bottom of my heart, and my excuse for offering to the next of kin,” he said in his email.
“I’m definitely ready information to give to schools so more children will make them aware of some of the major consequences of ill-considered or careless handling it is a powerful medium of social media.”
now, With the imposition of a mild sanction, has Van Lieshout’s definitely a different course from that of employed in the Amsterdam fire department. The new commander-in October, the successor to the Loan for the Sheep. He had to leave because of it, due to his leadership in an irreparable breach of trust was caused by the uitrukdienst. Van Lieshout has been awarded a contract for misconduct, but also to build confidence and trust in the police force.