A SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE DRIVER who consistently showed up for work reeking of alcohol was arrested and charged with “drink-driving” as he showed up for work recently.
His co-workers reportedly tipped off the police because their repeated complaints to their bosses were ignored. The Glasgow Daily Record reports:
A colleague said: “He was stopped by police 10 minutes before he was due to start his shift, just before he drove into the car park.
“What would have happened that night if he had got behind the wheel of an ambulance and driven to a 999 call?”
The man was suspected of driving over the legal drink-drive limit just yards from the Scottish Ambulance Service depot in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.
He failed a breathalyser test and was taken away in a squad car to the nearest police station, where he was forced to give a blood test.
Colleagues told the Record that instead of calling in to say he had been caught drink-driving, he phoned in sick with a sore back. One worker said: “The bosses have been trying to get a hold of him to find out what’s going on but he’s gone AWOL.”
The Scottish Ambulance Service is part of the National Health Service (NHS) which has been noted frequently on this site for having a bloated, yet ineffective bureaucracy and extremely long response times.
Read the full story in the Daily Record HERE.
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