"Policing is made up of real people, with families, with friends and with a life. I know I speak for myself and many others when I say I joined the police to be part of something that helps, something that supports, someone who runs towards the danger when everyone else runs away."
"This incident is one I have thought about everyday, often for hours on end, over and over. In moments like this in this job you don't consider yourself to be anything other than a police officer you do what is right and for me was stopping him from harming himself or others. However, the reality is under my uniform I am a person, a person with feelings, a person who is a human being, a person who is now a victim. The police are who you call in the worst moments of your life, yet I have been called to one of the worst of mine."
Essex Police were called to Harlow on 29 December 2023 after reports of concern for the safety of 25-year-old Declan Diedrick, who was of no fixed abode and in possession of a serrated seven-inch kitchen knife. Two officers attended and attempted to get him to put the knife down, and an altercation ensued. Before being handcuffed on the floor, Diedrick stabbed PC Hollie Matthews in the face, an injury requiring urgent hospital treatment. Diedrick was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, having pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article and wounding without intent, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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