Police Code Zero Officer Under Attack S02E01

Summary

The show delves into the gritty and perilous world of British policing, illustrating the severe challenges that officers face every day. With alarming statistics revealing a significant rise in assaults on officers, the episode highlights dramatic personal accounts from the front line. From a harrowing rescue by a police dog during a knife attack to the increasing encounter of corrosive liquids, the narrative captures the unpredictable danger inherent in modern policing, urging awareness and appreciation for the safety they strive to maintain.

Highlights

• The episode opens with alarming statistics about the frequency of police assaults in the UK. 🚓
• An intense moment features a police dog valiantly saving its handler from a knife-wielding suspect. 🐕
• Officers recount eerie and life-threatening encounters with dangerous suspects. ⚠️
• The episode includes dramatic visuals showing the chaos following an ammonia attack. 💥
• Undercover stops expose unexpected escalations, showcasing the unpredictability of the job. 🚔

Key Takeaways

• Assaults on UK police officers have significantly risen, with an attack occurring every 17 minutes. 🚔
• The emergency button is a vital tool for officers, signaling urgent assistance across the area. 🚨
• Dramatic stories highlight the bravery of officers in life-and-death scenarios. 🛡️
• Police work now involves facing not only physical assaults but also threats from corrosive liquids. 🚫
• The episode urges public awareness and gratitude for the risks officers take to ensure safety. 🙌

Overview

Police Code Zero unveils the alarming rise in assaults on law enforcement officers across the UK. The docuseries, produced by Cops and Robbers UK, goes beyond the surface to reveal the intense danger officers face daily. Statistics indicate a shocking increase in violent incidents, painting a vivid picture of the growing animosity towards those in uniform.

The gripping narratives shared by officers provide viewers with an unfiltered look at the frontline challenges they encounter. One of the standout moments involves a courageous police dog leaping into action to save its handler from a knife-wielding assailant, highlighting the unique bonds and bravery shared between officers and their canine partners.

In addition to physical confrontations, the officers grapple with the threat of chemical attacks, as evidenced by a chilling scene involving an ammonia assault. Through these stories, the series underscores the complex and often dangerous environments in which police operate, calling for increased public support and understanding of their critical role in ensuring community safety.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 03:00: Introduction and Statistics The chapter, 'Introduction and Statistics,' highlights the increasing tension on the streets of Britain. It describes the two opposing sides: police officers, who are at greater risk now than in the past, and individuals who display significant animosity towards law enforcement. The narrative provides insight into the challenging environment for police officers who are seen more as symbols of authority rather than individuals beneath the uniform, while also addressing the growing disrespect for the law from certain groups.
• 03:00 - 18:00: Police Dog Attack The chapter titled 'Police Dog Attack' discusses the increasing frequency of attacks on police officers in the UK, with statistics indicating an officer is attacked every 17 minutes. The chapter highlights the growing challenge faced by police due to rising violence and individuals' willingness to challenge authority. The narrative also touches upon the unique tools, such as police dogs, used by officers to enhance their safety and security.
• 18:00 - 32:00: South London Traffic Incident The chapter, titled 'South London Traffic Incident', focuses on a critical event requiring urgent police assistance. It describes the procedure followed when a distress signal is sent out, indicating a severe situation demanding immediate response from law enforcement. The chapter further explores the experiences of frontline heroes who share their real-life encounters during attacks. This narrative sheds light on the bravery and dedication of police personnel, allowing the public to rest easy knowing they are being protected during times of crisis.
• 32:00 - 45:00: Northampton Acid Attack The chapter titled 'Northampton Acid Attack' begins with a reflection on the risks police officers face while protecting the public, emphasizing the seriousness of these situations that often involve life and death decisions. The narrative features firsthand accounts and footage from police officers, who describe intense confrontations. One officer recalls being punched in the face before even reacting, followed by an encounter involving someone wielding a long machete. The officer's immediate thoughts turn to the impact on their family, highlighting the personal stakes involved in their line of duty. The chapter underscores the perilous aspects of policing, as noted in the reference to 'police code zero,' which signals an urgent need for aid.
• 45:00 - 49:00: Conclusion and Preview of Next Episode The chapter discusses two dramatic incidents involving police and crime. The first incident features a police dog that is slashed and stabbed in a quiet village, indicating a violent encounter. The second incident takes place in London, where a routine car stop escalates into a life-threatening situation. In both stories, the tension and danger faced by law enforcement are highlighted. The chapter also hints at potential legal troubles, as questions are raised about contraband in the vehicle.

Police Code Zero Officer Under Attack S02E01 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 there's a war taking place on Britain's streets some people do genuinely HTE the police I don't think they realize that underneath this uniform there's skin and born and a person on one side are embattled police officers defending The Thin Blue Line on the other are thugs with no respect for the law policing is more dangerous now than it's ever been and that level of animosity from a hard core of
• 00:30 - 01:00 individuals out there is something that I don't think we've seen before in the UK a police officer is now attacked every 17 minutes we are probably more likely to be assaulted than than any other public service and violence has reached unprecedented levels a lot of people nowadays are more than happy to challenge authority and go that extra step but our coppers have a unique tool to help them keep safe an emergency
• 01:00 - 01:30 button pressed only when they are in extreme danger when that button is pressed you drop what you're doing you you make Cas you get there no matter what it sends a signal to every copper in the area and says urgent assistance required there's been an actd attack outside MD with new shocking stories Heroes on the front line reveal what it's really like when they come under attack there's reasons why people can sleep soundly at night and if those
• 01:30 - 02:00 people are assaulted while they're trying to protect you that's something that the public should genuinely take seriously out police officer sharing in their own words and with their own footage life and death situations before I could even blink or think he's punched me in the face twice away don't you dead that's when I realized it's a really long machete my thoughts went to my family how this was going to affect them police code zero
• 02:00 - 02:30 [Music] today told for the first time a police dog is slashed and stabbed in a sleepy herera Village male was able to start slashing it back his head and it's something like of an avire there's blood everywhere is there anything in this car now that you can get in trouble for to no drugs over that in London a routine car stop turns into a life-threatening
• 02:30 - 03:00 [Applause] incident I was on top of him in the driver's seat shouting him to start there's no way that you could imagine a police officer being dragged off in a car ending well and in Northampton officers are caught in the middle of a late night fight Mo move away move away they were guarding each other for
• 03:00 - 03:30 I 7 to8 there's been an acid attack outside McDonald between March 2018 and March 2019 the number of assaults on police officers that resulted in an injury increased by 27% to well over 10,000 it's not part of the job to be assaulted as a police officer or a member of police staff uh the people who have being assaulted come to work to want to make a difference to protect
• 03:30 - 04:00 people in the community um and quite frankly from 2018 to 2019 I'm having two police officers or police staff assaulted every single day in humberside compared with nine years ago there are over 19,000 fewer police officers the government have announced a recruitment [Applause] Drive policing is more dangerous now than it's ever been I feel it I see it I
• 04:00 - 04:30 speak to officers I go and Patrol and that level of animosity from a hardcore of individuals out there is something that I don't think we've seen [Music] before in herfordshire Mike Davey has been a police dog handler for 24 years I was in the Army before I joined the police and at the end of my time in the Army I was thinking what else can I
• 04:30 - 05:00 do and it's a natural progression for a military to go into the police force having spent such long periods apart when he was in the army that was going to be a bonus to me you know I was going to be at home every day we're going to sit down and have tea together and it's going to be fabulous do you not want to keep those things not really what about that one no should we send it to your mom no and in actual fact you know it was kind of quite the opposite get it
• 05:00 - 05:30 wo good boy come good boy I knew I had to be a dog hler it was the ultimate job it's not a way of life and but it's a [Music] calling Baka has been part of our family for about six or seven years now you could see that Mike thought backa was really special we could come across anything from a traffic stop right up to a
• 05:30 - 06:00 Firearms incident we could be at Urban one minute and right in the middle of nowhere the next minute brard is a small black and white chocolate box time there's a couple of pubs a few
• 06:00 - 06:30 Indian restaurants Chinese restaurants it's just a small nice place to live not somewhere where you would expect something bad to [Music] happen this call comes in at bromyard cigarette break dring out the initial thoughts were that it was a burglary in progress
• 06:30 - 07:00 um there's a a break at the pap sh in Street the mail was smashing the windows of a news agents so I started making my way there two officers from lster made their way as well which is probably equal distance between the two of us really it's not clear what's exactly going on this in the ice Street they arrived first literally 30 seconds before I did unfortunately there was no other units close by
• 07:00 - 07:30 I I was in Ley I was in the car and the call came in of a guy breaking windows in High Street in bromyard it's not the worst thing we go to um but I was aware there was just one single crew in lempster who would have responded I had the only taser so we started making a gr one a pict shop wearing black trailers puffer jackets the hood yeah sorry Wood Street I heard that the officer had backed off
• 07:30 - 08:00 from the male and the male had threatened them with a knife and had ran at them del5 just coming in [Applause] from we got about halfway um P thway very rural and I heard that the call of a knife I came around the corner I saw the male to my right normally you go a situation like that there's lots of bravado lots of
• 08:00 - 08:30 swearing going on and the person would be giving the police officers load of abuse but nobody was saying anything which I'd never seen before so my first instance was I would get the dog out of the [Applause] van I looked at the officers they still hadn't come towards me they weren't saying anything so I looked at the mail and he produced crocodile dunde style this year huge 10-in bladed boning
• 08:30 - 09:00 knife told him to put it down he refused uh told him again still refused so I sent backa backa bit the male on the leg I couldn't believe that the male then was able to start slashing at back his head to hack it back his head and around the side of his face with this knife I then thought I've got to help my partner that's what he is he's my
• 09:00 - 09:30 partner he's my best mate I didn't know what to do and then I suddenly thought well I've got to get hands on myself I just knew at that point it's fight or fight there was no no running away we had to [Music] fight Frontline British police officers face a more volatile Society
• 09:30 - 10:00 home office figures reveal that in the year after March 2019 28 officers were injured because of an assault every day in bromyard herfordshire PC Mike Davy and his dog have found themselves faced with a man armed with a large knife intent on a fight I looked at the mail and he produced crocodile dunde style this huge 10in bled boning
• 10:00 - 10:30 knife the male then proceeded to hack it back his head I then thought I've got to help my [Music] partner at some point during the that fight uh we all broke free of each other he turned and started to run up an Alleyway that was behind him so we chased him up the
• 10:30 - 11:00 alleyway I pulled my uh parver sprayed the mail no effect whatsoever sent backa again just as backa got to him and he was about to bite him the male bent down and slashed back across the left hand side of his head cutting straight through his ear backa stuttered ran past him and stood at the top of the alleyway at that moment I thought that's it he's gone he's going to keep over and die in front
• 11:00 - 11:30 of me if I don't do something I'm going to die I just thought one more time backa hold him and God bless him he flew down the [Applause] alley if Paka hadn't come around and decided to come back in a second time I'd be
• 11:30 - 12:00 dead he was shouting but he wasn't screaming it was just this gutteral growl that never wants did he tell us to [Applause] stop I was carrying a taser and I was aware that the north crew didn't have a taser with them um and anyone with a
• 12:00 - 12:30 knife the taser is a perfect tool for uh so I was hoping to get there before anything went wrong the the two things you don't want is get hurt yourself or hear a colleague getting hurt when you can't get to them sry I get quite emotional that one took back it off the mail
• 12:30 - 13:00 and literally within a second he's up and running and I was stood there and I was thinking you can't do that get on the floor get the floor hold [Music] it he went back in and bit the mail for a third time die to with the other arm took him
• 13:00 - 13:30 to the floor uh and eventually he sort of to start to lose the strength that to resist us get a [ __ ] C good boy my attention was not going to back it cuz I knew he was injured and needed to get him sorted
• 13:30 - 14:00 stay still don't and at that point I realized I've been stabbed as well I've been stabbed through the right hand I took a breath and I just said on the radio I've just been stabbed and soed my dog been knifed I'll being knifed okay uh just when about a minute away I heard Mike shout up on the radio that uh backer are been slashed um followed by Mike saying that he'd been slushed himself and there was a
• 14:00 - 14:30 tumble weed moment the all the radio just went totally quiet and then the next second everybody in the two Force areas the armed response and the dogs were all coming to Wars just to give us help good luck and just as the end of that transmission I think we arrived good luck
• 14:30 - 15:00 good boy right there right there get R there get around there's still fighting it was a very nasty slash you can see 10 you can see bone uh Mike was doing his best but he could tell he was
• 15:00 - 15:30 in pain so I look in the van and I just see the inside of the van and it's something like of an abire there's blood everywhere oh it's a [ __ ] nice Cut I [ __ ] hell I see his left ear is basically hanging off and I've got to get him to the vet cuz you know I'm all right I know I'm hurt but it's not lifethreatening my blue lighted mic and Backa to Herford I was heading fore but Mike made
• 15:30 - 16:00 me go to the vets [Music] [Music] first he come prepared with a number of knives you got to wonder what his intentions were and then you wonder how he got to carrying out those
• 16:00 - 16:30 [Music] intentions there was that moment in the alleyway I thought I'd never see the wife or my boys or any of my family and friends again the change was in both of them it was
• 16:30 - 17:00 um Mike was quiet I was eager to get back to work I couldn't wait to get back I'm not one to have time off but I I was not in a good place he got up one Monday morning he went off to work I was at home and um about half 2 in the afternoon he arrived home and he cried
• 17:00 - 17:30 you don't want to admit there's something wrong but there comes to a point where you you I realize that I needed help cuz I I didn't like who I was I wasn't right and he needed to be able to talk outside of the whole situation um and thankfully that's that's what he did Fair juice to the police they um got me some psychiatric help had a load of sessions with a psychologist and it cleared my head and I thank them wholeheartedly for that
• 17:30 - 18:00 I've got a new job uh but backa has permanently retired and he's enjoying it back's constanting Devo to duty makes him a very worthy recipient pdsa gold M backa deserved everything he got he was just a truly amazing dog the way he he worked through what happened to him in 2019 West Mercier police recorded
• 18:00 - 18:30 over 37,000 violent crimes an increase of over 4,000 reported incidents from the year before as police nationally are called to more violent crimes the chances that they could become victims of violence themselves increases I get a real sense that policing is far more unpredictable than it's ever been before and I believe now
• 18:30 - 19:00 the public the media um politicians have never been more aware than the level of violence our colleagues are facing than they've ever been [Music] before the numbers that we're currently facing are not just affecting police officers it's happening for the Health Service doctors nurses uh ambulance drivers paramedics firefighter is this isn't just a police problem this is a
• 19:00 - 19:30 societal problem um and we have to say enough is enough in South London PC Nick moley is part of the Mets territorial support [Music] [Music] group right here yeah I am a tsg officer we are public order
• 19:30 - 20:00 Specialists so we would do the policing for all the marches and if there's a riot or something like that we go running bigger vehicles uh carriers which can hold up to about eight or nine people that's one aspect that I do enjoy is that you're with a larger group of people um probably likeminded just go out there those two of us please you ever two stay on just
• 20:00 - 20:30 case that's fine turn we also do um the bulk of the Met stop and search this exact stabing up the road tonight an inspector at the police station giv us authority to to search people okay as a tsg we get bid for by a burer who has a serious issue and we go to those areas and we would um look to stop and search people the stabbing took place brick Hill Junction we going St to okay5 45 well
• 20:30 - 21:00 tonight there's been a stabbing in the area we're going to um and because of that stabbing a a section 60 has been authorized which means that the police can can stop and search individuals [Applause] [Applause] [Music]
• 21:00 - 21:30 I think it's massively important um that we do stop and search because we need to stop these people carrying these weapons and if we stop someone with a knife um somewhere in London that potentially could be using a stubbing or a murder later in the day then um you know we've done something good [Applause] [Music] there in heast we get a lot of gang crime I I actually used to live down
• 21:30 - 22:00 there there was a murder outside my house one day and I woke up to there being a crime scene tape so I do know the problems that that they actually had down there um personally and you can see it every day there's there robberies on the on the briefings it's it's it's quite um quite a challenging [Music] Barrel we were in the unmarked car so there was four of us in it you had um
• 22:00 - 22:30 Emil and Sophie were the two passengers in the back of the car and I was the front seat [Applause] passenger we were set up just off of Green Lane I believe uh just watching cars go past just to see who was in the what they were doing and we noticed a Mercedes a class whiz past and go down a residential road that was 20 mph and he must have been driving in excess of I'd say 40 50 mil hour he's flying down the road we went after it and he' we' caught
• 22:30 - 23:00 up and he' pulled over and casually got out what was that about no reason sorry asked him why he was speeding and he said that he was there was a problem with his Tiptronic in the car now I'm no car expert so I had no clue what he was talking about my car come up fora unavailable so when I came out I'm lit she just got to my girlfriend's house at the end of the road so you a clown mate yeah I know my apologies yeah you before I I literally just got no I Lally just
• 23:00 - 23:30 got to the end of the right there I don't know why I've done that and when I see you come behind me I just thinking know what's this this car you think if there's a kid crossing the road there I know it's late at night I know Jamie Williams sorry he's never been before but you came over Sor that yeah you got any idea in my mind this would just going to be a sort of a ticking off for a bit of speeding um tell him to slow down and that would be it h on his [Music]
• 23:30 - 24:00 way please don't mate what your F doing tonight I'm literally just going to my girlfriend's house yeah where you coming from C at my house where' you live I stood on the other side kind of having a bit of a a look in just to make sure there was nothing there we need to be concerned about and I noticed that in the armrest there was a lot of cash which is something that we would look at a little bit suspicious what to some a little bit suspiciously cash how much cash is in
• 24:00 - 24:30 the car how much I said okay it didn't ring any alarm bells for me I still had no alarm bells ringing with him just m just coming from my M's house so why you got what do you mean I just comeing from my mate's house yeah to my girls fell out my wallet okay what do you for work I'm a chippy a chippy yeah cing hand C no no I do some self-employed some employed
• 24:30 - 25:00 work okay and is there anything in this car now that you can get in trouble for at all no no drugs over that no sure it's it's all come on [Applause] [ __ ] the chap got the car and drive and pulled away he's flown across the road at high speed there's no way that
• 25:00 - 25:30 you could imagine a police being dragged off in a car ending well I'm doing anything I can to try and make sure I go home at the end of the day rather than end up in a hospital bed somewhere assaults on police officers in England and Wales are rising in 2019 it averaged out at 84 attacks
• 25:30 - 26:00 every day in South London for PC Nick moley a straightforward traffic stop has exploded into a fight for his [Music] life what's that about we noticed a Mercedes a class flying down the road so we thought we'll just have a chat with him he was talking to Nick while I was doing checks on the vehicle and as I got out I got a sense that something
• 26:00 - 26:30 something was going to happen I'm doing anything I can to try and make sure I go home at the end of the day rather than end up in hospital bed somewhere there's no way that you could imagine a police officer being dragged off in a car ending well
• 26:30 - 27:00 [Applause] so the first time we went forward and we stopped pretty much we probably traveled about 30 to 40 m [Applause] initially then we came to the abrupt stop I don't know if it was him or me that pressed the break well I've tried to open the
• 27:00 - 27:30 door anything just just to get the vehicle to stop I managed to catch up to him and I just instantly got out of my Taser um attempted to taser the male through the window the new tasers we got have got two cartes so I shot him once and uh there was no effect let so I tried to do it again to increase the spread I think a couple of
• 27:30 - 28:00 probes went in Nick this time unfortunately for him unfortunately one of the bars went into the the suspect and one went into my foot so there was no no circuit completed of the taser for it to work Taser [Applause] Taser my get off get [ __ ] and Nick's in the car on top of him the car then pulls away again at speed um none of the
• 28:00 - 28:30 tasers have worked at [Applause] all yeah you can see the door still open and you can just see Nick I remember having quite clear thought process of if I don't jump out now then I'm going to get seriously seriously hurt mix R himself out he's rolled a number of times up the road [Applause]
• 28:30 - 29:00 he you what oh [ __ ] no he was just I think completely in shock pale just the Classic signs of shock really so I quickly called on the radio for other units to come back
• 29:00 - 29:30 I went to hospital um that night um and I had a broken wrist and I had quite bad grazing on my right leg where I just had been um T bur from the fall one it was probably one of the few incidents that properly affect affected me for a few days of when it's a colleague you see get go through through days it's it's a bit
• 29:30 - 30:00 different I was just scared about how injured he was going to be when when we got to him like the fact that somebody's got away the these things happen um that can be dealt with at lat stage but you don't want to see your colleague injured because somebody doesn't want to be dealt with for something they're potentially doing wrong
• 30:00 - 30:30 he went along the lines of he didn't know we were police officers cuz we were in plain clothes and he was scared so he tried to get away when we stopped him with blue lights throughout the whole procedure he showed no remorse to me um I sat in the courtroom he didn't look at me [Music]
• 30:30 - 31:00 the CPS lawyer was adamant that he was going to get sort of a threeyear prison sentence for the offense um and at the start of the judge's closing speech I was quite confident that was was going to happen he was saying how we need to protect our public servants and this obviously got injured in the line of duty he was just trying to help people doing the right thing and then mention the um character statement from the defendants um family
• 31:00 - 31:30 and at that point everything [Music] changed after the sentencing was given in court his solic came up to me and said would you be willing to go and sit in a room with him um he wants to apologize
• 31:30 - 32:00 and I understand circumstances where people might say yes to that but I was frustrated at the at the sentencing so I refuse that um would I be willing to do it now with him probably not [Music] in 2002 the Met began to record the
• 32:00 - 32:30 number of assaults that involved a corrosive fluid in the year 2017 that number was at an all-time high with 849 offences certainly what we see now is that level of violence which seems to go one step further noxious substances being sprayed in the face uh with at the time an officer won't know what it is but it can be you know acid ammonia um causes horrific
• 32:30 - 33:00 injuries Hospital admissions primarily related to assaults with a corrosive liquid peaked in 2017 but in 2018 they were still 16% higher than they were 4 years earlier I've got acid in this bottle I might get away with it cuz I might kid you on actually it's Lucas a or Coke and it is that morphing of actually if I carry a knife then if I'm caught with this knife I'm going to be subject to
• 33:00 - 33:30 arrest and and and and the consequences the large Market town of Northampton nowadays experiences problems once only associated with a big city that includes attacks involving noxious liquids Northampton it it's relatively a small County um quite a rural County um but easy access to London and other cities like birmy I've been the police
• 33:30 - 34:00 offic just over 9 years now um it has changed over the years I mean our numbers have have um changed when I was little I read a book and it was obviously a kids book about the police and I saw the uniform and how smart it looked and I thought yeah I want want to be a police officer me and Karen been on the same response team for many years so we know
• 34:00 - 34:30 each other pretty well both inside and outside of work you you meet up and and as a team in general you get to they become almost like your second [Music] family things have changed quite a lot we go to a lot more violent assaults when I first joined if you heard over the air that there had been somebody
• 34:30 - 35:00 that had possibly been stabbed it was like kind of a shock but now it's quite a regular occurrence um which is awful and it's a shame but it's happening [Music]
• 35:00 - 35:30 Friday Saturday nights we have dedicated police officers in and around the town when a lot of the bars start to close a lot of the youngsters will go towards McDonald's on the drapery um to get their food before they go home um so it becomes quite busy and and kind of a focal point of you know where we need to be or where we need to kind of keep an eye
• 35:30 - 36:00 on that night there was no big event on in terms of famous uh DJ or anything like that it was just a normal uh night just kind of stood back and just watched people laughing and you know kind of acting drunk but not you know they were quite jovial inside McDonald's there was something going on there was a security um staff member that appeared to be having a bit of conf ation with two groups um it was at that point we moved
• 36:00 - 36:30 forward um to try and assist him come on right guys guys guys come on we quite quickly realized that it was sort of too young like opposing gangs we've tried to separate both groups one by asking one group to remain in McDonald's while we cleared the other group outside and told them to move on um is at that point the other group has managed to come out of McDonald's and
• 36:30 - 37:00 they've had a second confrontation outside move away move away move away's they started to move away a little bit and we were sort of left in the Middle come on let's go up just move away yeah just move away just move away you're not going to be able to go back in there going back in there they were guarding each other for
• 37:00 - 37:30 a fight they clearly didn't get on didn't like each other you're not going to be able to go back one in the group that was been particularly verbal and um a a tall chat went to grab hold of this person and all of a sudden from kind of a few feet away from me but to the side um I just heard this like crackle in the corner of my eye I could
• 37:30 - 38:00 see the liquid coming across from my right hand side in Northampton PC Victoria Ballentine and PC Karen canwell have been sprayed with a liquid after trying to stop a fight we could clearly see inside McDonald's there was something going on there was a security um staff member
• 38:00 - 38:30 that appeared to be having a bit of confrontation with two groups they were guarding each other for a fight Mo away move away I just heard this like crackle and as I looked around this liquid just kind of sprayed across like the whole crowd of people
• 38:30 - 39:00 [Music] as I look round I saw a Lucas a bottle um and a guy holding it and then literally he just kind of threw it and [Music] ran immediate after that you could it was the smell or the sensation at the
• 39:00 - 39:30 back of my throat of of of the burning it was that moment I real instantly realized this is um an ammonia or acid attack I think I said acid attack 7 to8 there's been an acid attack outside McDonald's the next minute there's a guy running from where it had happened running away um at speed so we've given
• 39:30 - 40:00 Chase to him it was chaos there were members of the public holding their faces they didn't know what was going on they were shouting screaming water to Mo please water adrenaline kicks in and and you know she started across the road to go after one of the offenders you got it in your mouth go to the back um and then I think she's realized that she's got some in
• 40:00 - 40:30 her eyes and can't actually kind of see where she's going or what she's you know going after so um she's out to stop you could see the concern in her face I didn't realize it at the time but I did um have my hand sort of wiping what was on my face off I'm not going to lie and I I genuinely thought the worst I thought thought I was going to pull her hands away and yeah it was not going to be a
• 40:30 - 41:00 nice sight you have the horror stories don't you of of acid attacks um and where you've seen um pictures of people where they've had their skin melted and and what have you so the look of panic on her face was she assumed that's what was happening to me at that point Vicki washed her face and we were able to kind of help other people
• 41:00 - 41:30 sweetheart you're all right you're right look up look up look up for me have you got acid in your eyes right look up I'll put water in your eyes it was amazing how quick everybody got there a yeah just across there on my li it's again an example of how everybody comes together when it's needed hi guys being a police officer you you need people you need your colleagues we've caught them through the alleyway
• 41:30 - 42:00 after I guess what felt like an eternity and and stopped all of them I think there was four or five at that time and it transpired none of them were directly involved in the throwing of the acid um they were more the target um and one of the chaps we stopped had been directly affected by the acid to the face and he did need urgent medical help I spotted where the
• 42:00 - 42:30 bottle landed and um it was important to make sure that that that bottle didn't get picked up again um cuz there was quite a lot of liquid left in it ammonia yeah Amon I can smell it in the air as well I've got the bottle now over by the van fantastic a bottle was recovered and the bottle sort of melting from the inside out which obviously isn't it's worrying more than anything cuz you're thinking well what is that on the inside um and it smell very very strongly of
• 42:30 - 43:00 [Music] ammonia it is something that will stick with me um throughout my career and probably the rest of my life that it's not something that you'd um generally have happen on your day-to-day life
• 43:00 - 43:30 it's indiscriminate so I know with this it it didn't matter or the person throwing the acid didn't care for anybody else that was in the immediate vicinity [Music] the intention is still there to cause
• 43:30 - 44:00 somebody significant harm and that should be reflected if somebody's willing to to do that to people they don't even know I don't know where that stops in someone's mind um to think that's acceptable is yes beyond me [Music]
• 44:00 - 44:30 next time on police code zero a driver under the influence of alcohol refuses to go quietly I've reached in there and felt something heavy metallic I've pulled it out and it's been a knuckle duster police face unexpected violence when a Summer Street party goes back push me as soon as I've put hands on her she's pulled from my grip and chinned me and in London an officer is attacked with a machete during a routine
• 44:30 - 45:00 traffic stop he's broken through my grip and then he started hitting me with something and with more Brave cops next Wednesday night at 9 can a shop a holic help a fellow hoarder see the lights the new series of Hoarders junk apocalypse tomorrow at 9: next tonight from Jack knives to roadside Rex hang out with a tough team for trucks in trouble it's new Trucking hell in just a moment