Comment under the article about our PCC stopping a senior Fire Officer from doing his job at the Exeter hotel fire. Has she brought her office into disrepute? Hundreds of commentators on different sites seem to think so, saying what a stupid thing to do.
THE COMMENT
“The headline, “police and crime commissioner has been criticised for taking selfies at the scene of devastating Exeter fire”. Why has he been criticised? He has done absolutely nothing wrong! He did not take the selfie himself now did he? Alison Hernandez took the selfie of herself with the police and crime commissioner. I must also add that Alison Hernandez, the young lady who took the photo has done nothing wrong. I would say that this young lady simply wanted a picture of herself with our highly regarded police and crime commissioner. Give these people a break. What was he supposed to do….say no to the young lady and give a wrong impression? The poor man cannot win really can he? He, along with the rest of the marvellous support teams who have been dealing with this terrible inferno over the past 29+ hours, deserves a break and if he chooses to have time out by allowing someone to have a ‘selfie’ with him, then so be it. I am from Plymouth and have been watching the news intensely as I am devastated for the people of Exeter. I do not expect to see ridiculous headlines such as this. Please report the ‘news’ and not our police and crime commissioner taking some time out. I have never left comments before but felt the need to do so today.
Fortunately, someone later put the correspondent right:
THE REPLY
“@sreeve – Are you completely stupid or what? Alison Hernandez *is* the Police & Crime Commisioner. The bloke she’s seen with in the photograph is a fire officer.”
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