OFFICERS being beaten, bitten, choked, attacked with a machete, slammed against the ground and kicked in the face feature on a new harrowing video from the Police Federation of England and Wales.<\/p>\n
Federation data reveals that a shocking two million officers were subject to unarmed physical assaults in 2016 while 300,000 were attacked by a deadly weapon \u2013 that equates to one assault every four minutes.<\/p>\n
Assaults are also commonplace on NHS staff, prison officers and firefighters.<\/p>\n
The PFEW has released two snippets from the video to highlight the dangers emergency staff face every time they go on shift.<\/p>\n
It comes as an Assaults on Emergency Services (Offences) Bill is due for its report stage reading in Parliament.<\/p>\n
Introduced as a Private Members Bill by Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, it aims to make it an \u2018aggravating factor\u2019 to assault an emergency services worker.<\/p>\n
PFEW Chair Calum Macleod says the video will be shown in full at next month\u2019s PFEW \u2018Protecting The Protectors\u2019 Conference in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve released two teasers of the video to show that assaults should never be just part of the job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn assault on the emergency services is an assault on society itself and this should be reflected in the sentences handed out by the courts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt cannot be right that they should be at risk of being attacked, wounded and scarred physically and emotionally just for doing their job serving the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe courts must send the strongest message that an assault on the emergency services will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thankful to Chris Bryant and all of the MPs who are backing the call for tougher sentences – we must Protect the Protectors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calum is calling on the public to support the message too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe encourage everyone who wants to see tougher sentencing for those who abuse our emergency services to lobby their MPs to support Mr Bryant\u2019s bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can back the campaign on social media using the Twitter hashtag #ProtectTheProtectors.\u201d<\/p>\n
The teaser videos show a female paramedic, who was sexually assaulted by a patient, a prison officer, who was horrifically slashed across his head and face with a razor blade and police officers who were bitten, knocked unconscious, and attacked with a machete.<\/p>\n
To view the videos and find out more about the campaign visit; http:\/\/polfed.org\/newsroom\/5544.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OFFICERS being beaten, bitten, choked, attacked with a machete, slammed against the ground and kicked in the face feature on a new harrowing video from the Police Federation of England\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}