Hello, my name is grandparent another chief executive of Bournemouth Christchurch and Paul Council, our council star for essential key workers, critical to the fight against the spread of Cove. In nineteen, we have colleagues working in frontline care roles and answering phone requests for help. Far out together, we can community resilient service. Other colleagues are out on the streets very legitimately, doing environmental work or preventing obstruction of the routes that might be needed for emergency vehicles, while patrolling our seafront, open spaces, asking people to return home and stay safe.

Abuse of our staff is unacceptable at any time. So it's staggering to hear reports of abuse to both Council and other frontline staff at a time when many are going above and beyond the call of duty, working in extremely challenging conditions to keep our community safe. Any kind of abuse directed towards these colleagues is completely unacceptable and we will not hesitate to work with the police to duel harshly with anyone not treating our colleagues with the respect they deserve at this difficult time.

Please respect our essential public sector workers, whoever they are on whatever job they do. Thank you.

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