Chief slams yobs after string of attacks on police
A POLICE chief has vowed thugs will face the ‘full weight of the law’ after a weekend of attacks on his officers.
A man bit an officer and tried to strangle a second - in Stockport.
At about 9.45pm on Saturday, August 22 police went to a house on Reddish Vale Road in Stockport after receiving reports that a man was trying to break in.
As he tried to resist arrest, he bit one officer and tried to strangle another.
The 27-year-old man was Tasered and taken to hospital as a precaution, before being arrested on suspicion of two counts of assault on an emergency worker.
Neither officer needed hospital treatment.
It came after a police officer was attacked having been called to an illegal early-hours house party at around 1.30am on Friday, August 21.
Police were called to reports of a breach of coronavirus restrictions at a house on Gloucester Avenue, Marple.
An officer was assaulted. She was taken to hospital with a suspected broken jaw, but her injuries were not as serious as initially thought, a GMP spokesman said.
A 49-year-old woman was was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.
Separately, a woman sunk her teeth into an officer’s arm - before another kicked out at cops - during a shameful episode in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester.
Police were also pelted with missiles as they attempted to break up an illegal lockdown party in Bolton.
A man was Tasered as four people were arrested.
Nick Bailey, Assistant Chief Constable for Greater Manchester Police, said: “It is saddening to have to reflect upon another weekend where our hard-working officers have been assaulted during the course of their duties.
“These attacks are completely unacceptable and I want to make it clear that we will work to ensure that those responsible feel the full weight of the law.
“I’m sure every right-thinking member of our communities will join me in condemning these assaults.”