David Blunkett, the former home secretary, has blamed a culture of risk aversion for the failure by two police staff to try to rescue a drowning boy. Mr Blunkett sparked a debate on whether emergency service workers should be acting on "instinct", rather than following strict rules, when it came to saving lives.
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