{"id":30135,"date":"2017-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/attacked-medicos-discouraged-from-pursuing-legal-action\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"attacked-medicos-discouraged-from-pursuing-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/attacked-medicos-discouraged-from-pursuing-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacked medicos discouraged from pursuing legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Shadow Attorney General Vickie Chapman condemns reports assaulted medical officers have been encouraged not to press charges against their violent patients.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very alarmed to hear there seems to be a no prosecution policy,\u201d Ms Chapman told Leon Byner on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is very alarming and that must not happen, otherwise we\u2019ve got no chance of criminalising those that need to be attended to, treating those that need to be treated and\/or both.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306312030&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce somebody is in the system here\u2019s an opportunity then to say, ok you\u2019re on ice here\u2019s your choice: it\u2019s jail or treatment,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is some capacity to manage this and deal with it rather than turn a blind eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve still got an ongoing and increasing problem and nobody actually does anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Family First\u2019s Dennis Hood said \u201cassault is assault is assault\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe place in which that occurs is largely irrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Family First would resist any pressure put on people not to pursue legal action\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would strongly resist that. 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