'This project is about educating our young people that if you attack the emergency services, that is an attack on your own community.'
The initiative which is being run by the Upper Springfield Development Trust thanks to the Executive Office's Communities in Transition programme will aim to educate school children and youth groups on the importance of the emergency services and the various roles they play through a series of workshops.Read more:Man charged following assault on Ambulance staff in Larne
"Unfortunately, I think the society that we are living in today it would be unrealistic to say that we can completely stop these attacks. "An A&E ambulance is a very finite resource and when a crew is assaulted, that ambulance is taken off the road. They are unable to respond to the sickest patients in our community. Those are our cardiac arrests, our heart attacks and our stroke patients.
"We have seen an increase in these attacks and we hope that by allowing people to see the human side of our emergency services that it will make them think twice.
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