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Paramedic Steals Drugs, Goes to Jail, Keeps Job

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Defining Deviancy Down:
 So Just What Constitutes a Firing Offense, Then?

A QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, PARAMEDIC STILL HAS his job and nobody knows why.  The Courier-Mail is reporting today:

The 40-year-old paramedic was working near Rockhampton where he stole methoxyflurane – a non-opioid alternative to morphine often used for acute trauma – from the Queensland Ambulance Service in November 2010.

QAS suspended him a month later and court documents show he was convicted in Brisbane Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to "stealing as a servant" in April last year, receiving a $500 fine and five days' imprisonment.

Documents obtained by The Courier-Mail under Right to Information laws show he received a subsequent "formal reprimand" and demotion last June.

This recent disclosure has political groups, labor organizations and government officials in conniptions over why this convicted drug thief was allowed to keep his job.  The Queensland Ambulance Service is keeping mum about it though (so far).

The Courier-Mail has today's breaking story on this travesty HERE.

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Posted by on January 24, 2012 • Filed under: ambulances, EMS Topics, labor • Tagged: ,
  • Troysrideonmowers

    You bunch of ass holes have little idea of the stress this guy may have gone through as a paramedic. The person in question may have been brilliant at their job, and  probablystill are. Those who think they have not committed any sort of mistake, that they wouldnt  like to be made public feel free to throw the judgmental comments. There is no one out there that would like to have an enquirey into their lives, because no one is without some fault, even if they themselves dont realise this. Mabey some support for those in the position of trust needs to be a proactive substitute for slander. Mabey those in the position of authority have more clarity of thought that those people who have no power, but like to whinge and complain.