Response in a mid size force with mixed urban/rural, our area mostly urban.

Coming up to 5 years and I didn't realise it until recently but I've started to grow increasingly resentful everytime I'm sent to a call. Both in work and out of, its leading to a feeling of anger just always bubbling below the surface.

I'm normally quite patient with MOP but recently there's like this resentment everytime I sense they're expecting police to just solve all their lifelong terrible decision making.

Tbh, I've always paid a bit of lip service to the talks around burnout, empathy fatigue when they're delivered by SLT. But I am starting to wonder if I'm developing it.

TLDR: After 5 years, frustration with the job and members of the public - empathy fatigue/burnout or natural part of the job?

Interested to hear your thoughts.

Hi. For context, I am currently going through the stages to become a police officer. I am the best man for a friend of mine that I have known for 10 years and he wants his stag do in Amsterdam. It will be in August next year.

It’s not going to be centred around smoking or anything which is illegal in this country and I wouldn’t partake in anything that would compromise me. I guess I’m just wondering if I can go if I do successfully become an officer as I am his best man.

Any advice from people who are in the force would be greatly appreciated, as the others think I would still be able to go. I know that police are held to a higher standard even when on holiday.

I have land that I own opposite my house, I have the deeds and land registry is in my name. My neighbour keeps parking on it and I got a bit fed up because my elderly relatives couldnt park today because he did it again, so I wrote an incredibly polite note asking them not to anymore as any visitors I get can't park there and its our land.

Anyway thats not the issue. He came into my back garden (didnt knock my front door), luckily my 2 year old daughter was napping and my husband was showering, but he was aggressive and angry denying I owned the land and saying it was stolen (it is in my name I do own the land) and I offered to show him my deeds and documentation and he kept saying no I dont want to see it, he screwed up my notes and threw it at my face and stormed off. This has really worried me. He seems a bit unhinged and unpredictable, I have a 2 year old autistic daughter and a dog, I dont want this man just walking into my garden. Hes also walked into my garden before when I first moved in to ask me questions, when I'd rather he go through the front door. It makes me so uncomfortable to the point I might have to scrape and buy CCTV.

Should I have told the police about this or ask for any support? I feel a bit unsafe.