Two hundred Dorset police offcers assaulted on duty last year (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Two hundred Dorset police offcers assaulted on duty last year
9:20am Wednesday 20th March 2013 in News
Two hundred Dorset police offcers assaulted on duty last year
TWO hundred police officers were assaulted while on duty in Dorset last year, figures have revealed.
The assaults range from inflicting GBH with intent to actual bodily harm.
The chairman of Dorset Police Federation – the ‘union’ for police officers – says the number of attacks highlights the “dangers” officers routinely face on the frontline.
In the latest incident a police officer suffered facial injuries while dealing with an altercation at Fairfield in the Bargates area of Christchurch in February.
A Dorset Police spokesman said the injured officer had been discharged after receiving hospital treatment.
Two teenagers were arrested and released on bail pending further inquiries.
The attack comes just weeks after PC Adam Carr suffered a serious head injury outside the Nationwide building society in Boscombe.
Attacks on cops have dropped in recent years from 306 in 2010, 302 in 2011 to 207 last year.
Dorset Federation chairman Clive Chamberlain said the drop in recorded assaults is partly due to a reduction in officer numbers in recent years.
He added: “It is a dangerous job and I think the statistics may have been coming down since Taser and pepper stray has been more widely available.
“That definitely makes some people think about whether they are going to have a go at an officer because they know there’s a raft of protection available to them.”
He said more “dynamic” self-defence training has helped officers deal with situations.
“Inevitably it is a dangerous job. People do get assaulted and badly hurt.
“It is good news that the numbers of officers assaulted have reduced but it concerns me that with less police officers to deal with the same number of incidents, and with further to travel to incidents, that we will potentially see more in the future.”
The number of people arrested in the county has fallen over the last three years by almost 4,000 from 18,303 in 2010 to 14,582 in 2012.
Adding up the stats
ASSAULTS ON OFFICERS:
- 2010.................... 306
- 2011.................... 302
- 2012.................... 207
NUMBER OF ARRESTS IN DORSET:
- 2010............... 18,303
- 2011............... 16,576
- 2012............... 14,58
A man and a woman have been charged in connection with the assault on PC Adam Carr.
Comments(21)
retry69
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10:04am Wed 20 Mar 13
radical
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10:41am Wed 20 Mar 13
Tango Charlie
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10:54am Wed 20 Mar 13
High Treason
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11:33am Wed 20 Mar 13
freedom for pokesdown
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12:07pm Wed 20 Mar 13
I wonder if 'assault' includes verbal assault?
BIGTONE
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12:45pm Wed 20 Mar 13
paul.p
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2:49pm Wed 20 Mar 13
westhowewarriors
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7:11pm Wed 20 Mar 13
paul.p wrote:very true well said !
All Part of the Job or do you join the Army and wonder why you're getting shot at?
westhowewarriors
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7:12pm Wed 20 Mar 13
•2010.............
....... 306
•2011.............
....... 302
•2012.............
....... 207
NUMBER OF ARRESTS IN DORSET:
•2010.............
.. 18,303
•2011.............
.. 16,576
•2012.............
.. 14,58
CARE !
Controversial But True
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7:26pm Wed 20 Mar 13
Nothing to do with the sharp decline in real police officers then?
This government needs to go, along with those ridiculous PCSO's!!
Clunge
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8:48pm Wed 20 Mar 13
paul.p wrote:All part of the job? Rubbish. An employer has a duty of care regardless of the job, and Police Officers are not complaining about it, the stats are merely being pointed out.
All Part of the Job or do you join the Army and wonder why you're getting shot at?
37 Soldiers died in incidents involving snatch Landrovers (the mobile coffin) in Iraq and Afghanistan, a vehicle completely inadequate for the task, until the government were shamed into spending a few quid to buy the vehicles they should have used all along.
Should the troops just accepted it as part of the job? Or demanded changes?
Should firemen just accept burning to death in buildings, as "part of the job" or should they have rightly amended procedures to reduce the dangers they face?
I would suggest the type of person who assaults a Police Officer is of the same type as those that assault NHS staff, teachers and other people just doing a job. The punishment should therefore be harsh, just as it should be for Police officers who are proven to have broken the law.
jill M
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9:26pm Wed 20 Mar 13
Controversial But True wrote:The PCSOs are doing a valuable job, they are the eyes and ears of the community, they do many of the smaller jobs, freeing up the PCs to get on with other jobs. A lot of PCSOs go on to be PCs, as they ve had good training to start with. I m not saying that they should replace PCs for one minute, but please, don t keep knocking them, they re doing a difficult enough job as it is. We need more PCs and yes, more PCSOs on the street.
A decline in arrests and assaults!
Nothing to do with the sharp decline in real police officers then?
This government needs to go, along with those ridiculous PCSO's!!
O'Reilly
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10:52pm Wed 20 Mar 13
O'Reilly
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10:55pm Wed 20 Mar 13
d have cleaned up Boscombe.
s-pb2
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11:06pm Wed 20 Mar 13
retry69 wrote:Ah yes, the anti-police brigade! An article about the police would not be an article about the police without their predictable and boring whinging, whining and grizzling
Cue anti-police brigade
renea
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7:04am Thu 21 Mar 13
Clunge wrote:well said
paul.p wrote:All part of the job? Rubbish. An employer has a duty of care regardless of the job, and Police Officers are not complaining about it, the stats are merely being pointed out.
All Part of the Job or do you join the Army and wonder why you're getting shot at?
37 Soldiers died in incidents involving snatch Landrovers (the mobile coffin) in Iraq and Afghanistan, a vehicle completely inadequate for the task, until the government were shamed into spending a few quid to buy the vehicles they should have used all along.
Should the troops just accepted it as part of the job? Or demanded changes?
Should firemen just accept burning to death in buildings, as "part of the job" or should they have rightly amended procedures to reduce the dangers they face?
I would suggest the type of person who assaults a Police Officer is of the same type as those that assault NHS staff, teachers and other people just doing a job. The punishment should therefore be harsh, just as it should be for Police officers who are proven to have broken the law.
cycopath
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7:27am Thu 21 Mar 13
paul.p wrote:What does the p stand for paul?
All Part of the Job or do you join the Army and wonder why you're getting shot at?
westhowewarriors
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12:15pm Thu 21 Mar 13
jill M wrote:what a debate u people are sad f.t police let them get on with it
Controversial But True wrote: A decline in arrests and assaults! Nothing to do with the sharp decline in real police officers then? This government needs to go, along with those ridiculous PCSO's!!The PCSOs are doing a valuable job, they are the eyes and ears of the community, they do many of the smaller jobs, freeing up the PCs to get on with other jobs. A lot of PCSOs go on to be PCs, as they ve had good training to start with. I m not saying that they should replace PCs for one minute, but please, don t keep knocking them, they re doing a difficult enough job as it is. We need more PCs and yes, more PCSOs on the street.
Azphreal
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1:26pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Azphreal
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5:04pm Thu 21 Mar 13
simcal says...
9:46am Wed 20 Mar 13