My Monday last Week

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I got out of bed on Sunday May 28th at approximately 10:00am. I started work that night at 11:00pm. As per usual I got to work half an hour early, unpaid. At 10:45pm I took a call in the watch house. There was an accident on the Western Ringroad Melbourne Bound just prior to the Calder Freeway. I waited impatiently for my offsider to arrive at work. Our only arvo unit was tied up at a domestic.

At 10:55pm we headed out to the accident. Was actually two seperate accidents. The first involved a vehicle that reversed on to the Western Ringroad into the path of a truck. A short time later, after the truck had pulled off the road, an elderly person panicked seeing the scene and braked, causing another car to run up her rear. We arrived shortly after this. Ambos and fire brigade already in attendence. I started walking to first car. Just as I got there I heard an enormous bang. A further accident had occured because someone decided to travel too fast through the scene of an accident, braked hard and the rubber necker behind her, wasn't paying attention, and ran up the rear.

This is when I had to make the decision and close all city bound lanes of the Western Ringroad. I had 6 vehicles smashed up and injured people. Luckily none deceased. The traffic starts to bank up and no doubt people start to complain. I then had to speak to every driver/witness and work out what had happened. Then organise tow trucks, vic roads to clean up road and finally an hour later clear the scene. These three accidents created 3 hours of paperwork for me.

Most of the rest of the night was quiet. Come 6:15 AM a well know offender in our area decided to breach an intervention order. He has huge amounts of assault history including assault police. 6 members attended his address and before long he was fighting, spitting and kicking members before being sprayed with capsicum spray. I had now been up for nearly 20 hours and was being spat at by this male. He was also making threats to kill me and rape my mother in hell. More colourful langauge was used. I arrested this male, interviewed him and then took him to court to be remanded. It was now 10:30am on Monday morning. Still no sleep. It was finally 11:30am when the defendant's solicitor made the decision not to apply for bail. I returned to the station and at approximately 12:45pm got home, to get some sleep.

I had worked three days prior to this on arvo and day shifts. I still had 6 nights to go and three more shifts of day and arvo before I would get a rest.

Just another day in the life of a Vic copper...........