A police officer has been shot in the leg by a police firearm while trying to detain a man with a machete. The Gloucestershire Constabulary officer was taken to hospital with a non life-threatening leg injury after the incident in Silverstone Walk, Gloucester, on Wednesday.Oh, Gloucestershire... well, they have form. Perhap Mr Mickelthwaite's found a new job?
"My thoughts are with the officer who's been injured and his colleague following this incident," said temporary chief constable Maggie Blyth. "I am grateful for the bravery they have shown in detaining someone suspected of carrying out a robbery and possessing a machete and who was believed to have been a real danger to the public."
Sounds to me like he’s not the only one! And if you send armed officers, shouldn’t they stand well away and use the threat of their guns as a deterrent, rather than get close and start wrestling with the prisoner?
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service confirmed an ambulance, critical care car, a rapid response vehicle and the hazardous area response team attended the incident.
Why a ‘hazardous area response team’? Did he bleed acid like a xenomorph?
A cordon has been put in place and police officers will remain in the area to provide reassurance to the public.
Very reassuring, I’m sure!
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I certainly hope that that police firearm was detained, and that the police firearm was taken off duty until the police firearm completed remedial training
>"shouldn’t they stand well away and use the threat of their guns as a deterrent, rather than get close and start wrestling with the prisoner?"
Over here we just shoot you if you don't drop it and submit after a couple demands.
While that may seem excessive to some, I am sure that there's a good middle ground between 'just shoot them' and 'risk getting my arm cut off wrestling with a whackjob that is, *at best*, going through yet another mental health crisis.
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I think ours are too afraid of the lobby that starts up whenever a melanin-enriched criminal gets slotted.
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