Traffic police hit by car - one perspective

1. In the past few days, I honestly did not dare to watch the clip of Do Van Thang not wearing a helmet, driving at high speed and then crashing into Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Trong Quy, causing Senior Lieutenant Quy to be thrown high into the air, injuring his head and face, seriously threatening his life. The incident happened in An Lao district, Hai Phong. In my heart, I felt pity for Senior Lieutenant Quy. Let's not talk about "right - wrong", "should or should not" here, but put yourself in the situation of Mr. Quy, who suffered a brain hemorrhage, a broken arm and many other injuries. Let's temporarily consider him as your relative, let's temporarily put ourselves in the role of Mr. Quy's wife, child, and parents, to feel the extreme pain they are suffering, would anyone dare to be cold and indifferent and criticize Senior Lieutenant Quy?

Personally, I wish him a speedy recovery and a speedy return to work. And I think that when the incident first happened, on social media, someone spoke out criticizing Lieutenant Quy for his poor professionalism, even stupidity, and gloating over the pain that Quy and his family are suffering, which is really cruel, cold, and even inhumane.

This is not the first case of a traffic police officer being “resisting a person on duty”. There have been many cases of drivers throwing traffic police officers onto the hood of their cars. In most of these cases, the subject did not drive at high speed. There was a case where a traffic police officer was writing a ticket when the driver started the engine and roared into the traffic police officer. If the traffic police officer had not been able to hold onto the windshield wiper, his life would have been taken. This shows that once a subject intends to “resisting a person on duty” and intentionally commits a crime, it is difficult to avoid.

Once sitting at a traffic checkpoint, I asked a traffic police officer: Why do you know that a violator is driving at high speed, but you still rush out to stop him? This officer immediately said: When you see a violator and you "dodge" to the side, letting him escape, it is very annoying. Every job has its own "professional dignity". You can avoid yourself, but at that speed, the subject can endanger many other people. So at that time, you have to stop the subject at all costs, even though you know it is dangerous. Sometimes you don't have time to think about the danger.

I sympathize with this traffic police officer's sharing and I believe that there are many traffic police officers on duty who, because of their "professional pride" and "professional pride", cannot be lenient with violations. (That's why many criminal police officers still rush in to fight back against subjects who are holding sharp knives in their hands and know that the subject is HIV-infected, but at that time, they don't have enough time to calculate, they will be exposed to HIV immediately). Another traffic police officer confided that if they give in and compromise just for their own safety, they will always give in and compromise. "Standing on the street" also requires "gangsters". In reality, there have been situations where traffic police officers jumped on the hood of the car to try to block the subject from escaping. "In that emergency situation, it is very difficult to apply the lessons in the textbook because if the subject escapes, it is embarrassing and frustrating", the traffic police officer shared.
In this article, I do not talk much about the hardships of traffic police and I also know that, in the field of patrolling and controlling to ensure traffic order and safety, there are still "this and that" situations that upset public opinion. I only know that if one day the red light breaks and there is no traffic police to direct traffic, the city will be in chaos. Without traffic police to handle many cases on key traffic routes, accidents will happen a lot...

2. Back to the story of Lieutenant Nguyen Trong Quy. When I feel sorry for him, I earnestly hope that similar heartbreaking incidents like this will never happen, and in fact, the traffic police can completely "prevent and avoid" it. Because they are all trained properly and systematically. A Colonel, Associate Professor, and traffic safety expert told me that he had studied this incident and determined that Lieutenant Quy and the working group signaled to stop Thang according to the correct procedure, there was no such thing as going against the procedure. This is a risk in the job. There was a case where the traffic police stood 50 meters away, but the subject still deliberately rushed in, so it was unavoidable. The incident where Thang hit Lieutenant Quy with his car was an act of resisting a person on duty, unacceptable, and this subject will certainly be severely punished. This Colonel said that the school curriculum mentions a number of situations, but in reality, countless situations occur. Therefore, schools must regularly update these real-life situations to enhance professional training for students majoring in traffic police. Even the matter of how traffic police cars stop on the side of the road, police schools must also provide very thorough training to avoid professional errors. In any case of "chasing a subject", it is thought that traffic police officers must also be fluent, to avoid unfortunate incidents.

The "traffic safety" front is extremely complicated and heated. To do so, in addition to "self-respect and professional pride", which are the most important things that traffic police officers must have; in addition to having a firm grasp of professional legal knowledge which is indispensable, they need to be quick-witted in handling situations. They must ensure their own safety and ensure the safety of the people. In particular, they must not be subjective, underestimate the subjects and must know how to control themselves and be clever. They should not fall into the mentality of seeing traffic participants as violators everywhere, and they must not let situations happen that provoke the subjects (in reality, there are cases where subjects panic when they see traffic police, cannot control their speed, etc.) ... I agree that you "resolutely attack criminals to the end", but determination + quickness + intelligence will be the optimal solution to help you excellently complete your tasks on complex traffic routes.