As an amusing aside to yesterdays post. I only found out about the arms exhibition because of all the police in the area.

I found out about the demonstrations because I spent five minutes with Google.

I found out the LAS plans to cover the event by talking to friends.

There has been no official bulletin, no memos, no announcements. Our regular bulletin has however let us know about our new 'Community Handbook' (more on which later).

Bit of a poor showing I think.

(Also some people on my station are annoyed that they were never asked to cover the event - considering that it is smack bang in the middle of our 'patch').

Still, the police and protesters will be able to see our nice new shiny ambulances sitting around, while those of us actually working on the streets have had to make do with our old ambulances.

I mean, why would the road crews want the newer air-conditioned ambulances with tail lifts?

I believe that one crew were told by management that this situation is happening because 'image is important'.