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Rock climbing, police and rescue today 24-Apr-2017 At 12:15:29 AM patto

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Sounds terrible. But sadly it is representative of the inexperience/incompetence and OH&S issues facing our government based rescue teams. Sure I've heard plenty of good stories but I've heard plenty of bumbling ones too.

On 22/04/2017 Jezlevett wrote:
>Am I in my rights to go back down? Can police
>stop me? No rescue is down there.

I'm not a lawyer but I believe that it is an offence to not obey a lawful order/direction from a police officer. Lawful orders from police officers are fairly broad as I understand it. When members of the public are at risk then I would believe that the police are well within the law here.

That said I probably would have ignored their requests. Not only because it was the RIGHT thing to do to assist the injured person but because if they tried to charge you might pretty good defence. It could be readily argued that you fear that the person especially because of his intoxication was in great danger if he was reached expediently.