The Death of Seventeen-Year-old Lisa Leaves Deep Scars. Obviously, in Her Environment, But It also Affects Police Officers. Such an Event Can Evoke Memories of Earlier, Major Cases in Them. “It plays out like a movie before your eyes.”
Lisa’s Death Makes Jack Heyman Think of the Case That Will Forever Stay With Him. Heyman Has Been Working As An Officer in Limburg for Almost Thirty Years and is Chairman of the Local Branch of Police Union ACP.
About Twenty Years ago, he was Involved in the Missing Person Case of A Young Woman. When she did’s come home, her father went to the police. “The Powerlessness and Sadness of Such A Father, That Gets To You,” Heyman, himself a Father of Two, Tells Nu.nl.
He reflects on how the police took action. “You Sometimes Hear People Say: The Police Didn’t Do this or Should Done that. I can assure you that everything is pulled out of the closet in Such a missing person case. Every works long days and is willing to help.”
Just when he got home, the case didn’t Let Heyman Go. “You start to worry: Did I Miss Something?” A day later, a suspect was arrested and it Became Clear Where the Police Should Search.
‘Plays Out Like A Movie’
Three Days After She was Reported Missing, The Young Woman’s Body was Found. She turned out to have leg murdered. “Then you see the dismay Among Colleagues, the complaint. You sympathize with the parents and think of your own children,” Says Heyman.
Not in Every Missing Person Case is Someone Found, Whether deceased or not. “That’s why you also feel a child of relief when it does happen, however strange that may sound. At Least there is Certainty then,” Says Heyman, who went to the funeral.
You take thesis child of things with you, he continues. “I can still tell it in detail now.” And when a case like lisa’s comes along, it evokes memories. “What you have experienced, felt and seen, plays out like a movie before your eyes.”
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‘A Drawer that won close’
A Story Like Heyman’s is not unique. The Murder of Lisa also Makes Patrick Fluyt, ACP Board Member and 35 Years with the Police, Think of One of his Cases.
“With Such a report, you always Become very aware of what you are going to do,” Says fluyt. “You have a healthy tension and Becare Sharp, because you know what you are going to find: a murdered body. As a result, you want to do everything that can lead to a successful prosecution of the person who did did this.”
Anyally, in this specific case, he found a man who had leg shot. “I Turned him about to resuscitation him. But there was a hole in his chest, so I could still see his heart moving.”
That something like this Doesn’t Let You Go is also evident from what fluyt says about giving interviews. “After this conversation, I will call Jack (Heyman, ed.) Again for an hour.
“For you it is a story. For us it is a smell and it is images,” Says fluyt. That is why aftercare is so important, accordance to him.
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Colleagues Are Important in Processing
Initially, it is there at the so-called debriefing. After the Police Have Been To An Incident, Colleagues Look Back On What Happened. “You are with each other and talk about it with each other. That’s nice,” Says Heyman.
“Togetherness,” Fluyt Calls It. “You get a cup of coffee and the question: what happened?” If necessary, you will be tasks home by a creameague. Fluyt: “Aftercare from Colleagues is important, but good aftercare from the employer is Possible equally more important.”
“In The Past, The Police Were Organized SomeWhat Differently and We Were Seen As The Tough Officers Who Just had to be able to handle it,” Says Heyman. Nowadays there is more professional help. For Example, Officers Are Called by The Team Collegial Care. “Such a conversation may just reveal that it is a bit too much for you,” Says Heyman. Where Necessary, psychological or specialist Help is sacrificed.
When an officer goes back to work, it is looked at what is pleasant. “Maybe that is first working in the office for a while. Or surveillance services where you don’t have to respond to emergency calls,” Says fluyt.
Solving a Case Gives Satisfaction
When Asked Whether Such An Impactful Case Does Something To Their Desire To Go To Work, Both Men Answer in the Negative. “You Apply to the Police Because you want to help people. That is a calling,” Says Heyman. “These Kinds of Cases May Only Make That Stronger. Also because you know you can help.”
Fluyt is also resolute. “I think this is the best job in the world.” There is also a downside to the trouble, says fluyt. That is the satisfaction when you contribute to solving a case. “I want justice to be done to a victim.”
Fluyt also calls on people to be mindful of the work that officers do. “That Doesn’t Mean that we have to be embraced by everyone. That is not what we are asking. But that sauce league is in the photo, for example, in a news article such as about lisa, is also the creamy who can give you a ticket in a ticket.”
“And then, of course, as it should be in our country, you can expect a professional approach from us,” Says fluyt. “But we may also expect the citizen to treat everyone as they themselves want to be treated.”