Fourteen PSNI officers were assaulted across Fermanagh, east Tyrone, Armagh and south Down in separate incidents on St Stephen’s Day.<\/p>\n
The 14 assaults included a biting incident which led to one officer being hospitalised.<\/p>\n
PSNI Chief Inspector Adam Ruston condemned the violence, describing it as a shocking number of assaults on police, which he said is “totally unacceptable”.<\/p>\n
“This type of behaviour places members of the public and our officers at risk of serious harm and we are lucky not to be dealing with serious injuries,” he said.<\/p>\n
Two police officers were injured when a car rammed a patrol vehicle in Forkhill in south Armagh. The car later crossed over the border, police said.<\/p>\n
Chief Insp Ruston appealed to the public for information on the incident.<\/p>\n
“At around 1.40am a silver Renault Megane collided with a police car on patrol in the area. The vehicle failed to stop and then fled across the border,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As a result, two officers were injured and the patrol vehicle sustained damage which will render it unusable for the foreseeable future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen PSNI officers were assaulted across Fermanagh, east Tyrone, Armagh and south Down in separate incidents on St…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-254609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}