Chiefs to hold emergency summit on protecting officers from attacks surge

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Chiefs to hold emergency summit on protecting officers from attacks' surge

PCCs urge automatic jail for offenders who assault policing's frontline.

NPCC chairman Martin Hewitt: Nothing else we do in policing is as important as protecting officers

Date - 25th August 2019
By - Nick Hudson - Police Oracle

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Chiefs have pledged an emergency summit early next month on protecting the frontline as police and crime commissioners call for offenders who attack officers to be jailed with “no ifs or buts”. The decision to hold urgent talks comes in...

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