To ask a question to all NHS/police/frontline workers…

[thiu]

Trying to understand some more about this and whether it’s acceptable or not, having heard along the grapevine some info that might be about me.

Do you share what you like with your family and friends? Do you have to privatise certain details?

The two scenarios and professions below are totally made up as not to give any identifying info. The profession is neither of those but similar. The level of detail shared is along the same lines (location and what happened, to a close connection of mine).

e.g

If you are police and you responded to a fight, could you tell your family and friends which pub and that a man was hurt?

If you are a paramedic, could you tell your friend who worked in a supermarket that you were at their work at the weekend treating a colleague who’d had a stroke?

I’m just trying to ascertain how much detail is acceptable for these professionals to share. I appreciate they must all be difficult jobs where it is valuable to offload to family and friends.

Is it generally fine for people in these organisations to share what they want so long as they don’t say your name or date of birth?

Thank you.

Are you thinking of complaining about someone?

Please think long and hard about putting somebody through this kind of investigation, especially when with the little information you have given it doesn’t sound clear cut or as though someone has crossed the line. At best it sounds like they have done nothing wrong at all.

People in these kinds of jobs work extremely hard to obtain their skills, face difficult challenges every day and really don’t need people scrabbling for things to complain about.

Just don’t pursue anything unless it’s a clear cut and intentional breach of privacy, but this sounds nothing of the sort.

If it happened in a public place, the incident is public knowledge

"Yeah, went to that street brawl, arrested two people"

You wouldn't say who was arrested though, that might not be public knowledge. Even if it was, you say nothing that would identify the person/s.