Police causing the maximum inconvenience, M4 closure Options

[gel]

Why are Police causing massive inconvenience to thousands and not bringing incident to swift end by intervention; presume a jumper or the like?

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=14702


Almost certainly this will result in more accidents due to overloaded local roads, whilst police never seem to have in mind rapid reopening of this major artery.

[Strafin]

My main issue with this whole thing is the length of time the roads were closed for. Of course people lose patience - can you imagine sitting stationary on a motorway for four hours? I don't know who it is who should be charged with helping people who find themselves in this position, but perhaps that is waht needs looking at. The man was obviously not thinking straight, whether he was ill or not and we could all end up in that position. So let's not blame him totally, the police should have done a better job of removing the stiuation, but is it really their job to talk down potential jumpers? And what got thge guy so incensed that he ended up there in the first place? Maybe we should be blaming whoever made him feel like this was a good move? Either way I can understand peoples frustration, this took far too long to sort out, but at least it didn't result in a needless death.