A police officer was bitten on the hand during a struggle to arrest a suspect in Nottinghamshire.
On Tuesday 8th February at 23:10 hours, Nottinghamshire Police were called to an address in Kent Close, Worksop, after reports that a man was breaching his bail conditions.
The male officer was bitten on the hand during a struggle as they tried to detain the 28-year-old man.
The suspect was eventually subdued with irritant spray and restrained.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of breaching bail conditions, assaulting a police officer with intent to resist arrest and possession of three bladed articles, after three knives were found in a bag.
He was taken to hospital for assessment and later taken into custody.
Inspector Neil Bellamy, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:
“Our officers work hard to keep the public safe and should not have to endure violent, abusive and threatening behaviour in the workplace. We take assaults on our officers extremely seriously and will always take the strongest possible action those responsible.”
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He breached his bail conditions thus proving that he is untrustworthy. On those grounds alone he should be remanded. That he bit an officer and had three knives should reinforce such a decision.
Instead, he will be let out on yet more bail, which he will probably also ignore because there are no consequences, and continue to be a nuisance. He will probably get a nonsense community sentence which he will fail to attend and might even get a fine, which he will not pay. Meanwhile, he is free to continue his criminal behaviour. Whether this is just plain nasty and intimidating to the law abiding or is profitable crime, there is not meaningful punishment, so he will continue his merry way.
It is no good the police saying that they will not tolerate such behaviour. They have not option. The judges keep letting these scumbags out, again and again. Therefore, the cops have to arrest them, again and again. Because there are no consequences, the criminals can raise levels of violence to avoid arrest. If they knew that they would be locked up for the crime itself plus further incarceration for resisting arrest, assault etc, it would be in their best interests to limit jail time by coming quietly and if bailed, to behave themselves.