A male has been arrested after an emergency ambulance was allegedly driven in to deliberately after paramedics were attacked with a knife in Wiltshire on Christmas Day.
At around 16:30 hours, paramedics were called to a residential address in Morse Street, Swindon.
An emergency ambulance crew from South Western Ambulance Service arrived on the scene shortly after the 999 call was made.
However, upon arrival, they came under attack and were forced to seek refuge in their vehicle as they waited for urgent police assistance.
At this point, their vehicle was struck by another car.
A 39-year-old male was arrested on suspicion of affray, criminal damage and drink driving.
He was booked into Gablecross Police Station.
Inspector Steve Love said:
“It is a sad reality that while attending calls to protect the public that emergency service staff are put in situations where they fear for their own safety on a daily basis and Christmas Day is no exception, unfortunately.
“Nobody should be made to feel in danger when trying to carry out their work, especially when that work involves protecting our communities.
“We will do all we can to protect emergency workers doing their job and urge the public to respect our officers and members of the ambulance service and fire service and to help us to help you.”
The news comes as Sussex Police revealed that 16 of its officers had been assaulted on Christmas Day.
Of the 16 assaults recorded, 12 occurred in West Sussex and four occurred in Brighton and Hove.
In general, the emergency services have seen an increase in the frequency and severity of assaults being inflicted upon staff.
The Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, have said that the courts will ‘come down hard’ on anyone convicted of assaulting an emergency worker.
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“The Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, have said that the courts will ‘come down hard’ on anyone convicted of assaulting an emergency worker.” We can live in hope, it ‘springs eternal’ and costs bugger all, experience however is a painful teacher. The criminal protection service aided and abetted by anti-social services will no doubt find as many excuses as possible for the miscreants before they end up in court, and IF found guilty further excuses for not ‘coming down hard’ on them, not that some judges or magistrates need much encouragement…
In a few days time we will be free of the malevolent EU. Not totally free, it is true, and not as free as I would like, but we will be able to start repealing some of the nonsense laws imposed upon us by Brussels, starting with deportation and human rights legislation.
In 1997, sensible people warned that adopting the EU human rights legislation would prove to be a criminals’ charter and so it has proved. However, once adopted, there was no going back, thanks to the various treaties that had been signed.
We must now wait and see if Priti Patel and the Johnson government starts to deliver the benefits of leaving the EU. I received a long (3 page) letter from the Home Secretary outlining her frustration at trendy, lefty lawyers using every ruse to keep illegals and criminals, often both, in this country. She made it perfectly clear that she was looking to repeal some of this legislation so that we can get rid of foreign illegals and criminals.
Of course, this must go through due process. In the case of criminals, they must have the right of appeal if appropriate, but if that fails, out they go. As for illegals, they arrived illegally and so must be thrown straight out again. The problem is that they are left to wander about at will. Some vanish, some commit crime and some attack our women folk. Any illegal caught in the UK must be interned in secure accommodation pending automatic deportation and permanent exclusion.
The government has the hell of a job on its hands though. The woke left has infiltrated everywhere, just like dry rot. One might get a whiff here and there, but the full infestation is not known until major structural damage has occurred. We are now at a stage where we can see the scale of infestation and must take radical action to deal with it.
Priti has been accused of the bullying and harassment of her staff. Good. That means she is not taking any woke nonsense from anybody. Successive Labour Home Secretaries despaired of the department and John Reid went so far as to say it was not fit for purpose. Let us fervently hope that Priti is supported by her colleagues and has a top down clear out of the Home Office. This is a task akin to the cleaning of the Augean stables, but good luck to her.
I cannot understand why officials making press statements after attacks on all 999 workers sound so mealy mouthed there should be a really strong message stating we will not tolerate our emergency staff being attacked while on duty. We intend to arrest and prosecute to the full extent of the law .instead of whats been released regarding the ambulance crew