2023 BRAVERY NOMINATIONS
The man pushed PC Insull and challenged him to arrest him. The officer used his PAVA spray, but it had little effect on the male, who then knocked PC Insull to the floor, throwing punches at his head and face, which caused injuries and bleeding. PC Insull’s colleague then struck the male with her baton, but this
had no effect. The male pushed her and continued to assault PC Insull. Despite the injuries inflicted, PC Insull pursued the male, who continued to deliver heavy blows to his body. At this point, PCs Daniel Rooker and Chloe Bradley arrived on the scene, but their warnings failed to pacify the male. PC Rooker then used his Taser, which only had a momentary effect on the male, who pulled out the Taser barb and threw numerous punches at PC Rooker, causing ligament damage to the officer’s hand and arm. Eventually, the officers managed to restrain and handcuff the violent offender.
DERBYSHIRE An officer tactically talked to a man who had choked her colleague unconscious in a vicious assault.
PC Laura Nicholson prevented PC Adam Podam from suffering severe injuries, after they were attacked by two violent offenders at a house in Tibshelf. The officers were called to a domestic incident and confronted by a man and his son, who were immediately aggressive. The son hit PC Podam in the face with a motorbike helmet,
and then he was taken to the floor by the father and choked unconscious.
PC Nicholson used her PAVA incapacitant spray to repel the son and activated her emergency assistance call as she went to help her colleague. However, she was unable to restrain the offender and realised she couldn’t match the his physical strength. As the incapacitant spray had not affected him, she changed her tactics by talking in a calming way and distracting the male who had been threatening to hospitalise the officers. PC Podam was unconscious by this point.
PC Nicholson continued with this tactic, displaying excellent communication and having a positive effect on calming him down. Eventually, she convinced him to release PC Podam, allowing enough time for assistance to arrive.
DEVON & CORNWALL Two officers were stabbed multiple times in a frenzied attack and have since undergone multiple surgeries. Attending to a report of a wanted high-risk male in possession of razor blades, PCs Tim Willett and Darren Brimacombe, who knew of the suspect from their previous work, found him drinking in the driver’s seat of a car.
Without warning, the male swung at the officers with a knife, narrowly missing PC Willett.
He then rushed out of the car and
attacked PC Brimacombe, repeatedly stabbing him.
The officer suffered lacerations to his scalp and his left eyelid, which were just millimetres away from
damaging his eye. The end of his nose was nearly cut off.
The knife was then plunged into PC Brimacombe’s arm, causing a significant arterial bleed.
PC Willett wrestled him off his injured colleague, but was
stabbed in the forearm and his fingers were sliced as he pulled the blade from his grasp. PC Willett deployed his Taser to subdue the male, so PC Brimacombe could apply handcuffs and detain him.
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