Police respond to urgent assistance call at London Hospital

[@ViperUK]

To be clear the call wasn't made simply because an officer was spat at! For those who think this is an overreaction: An urgent assistance call is something all police officers dread and is a "drop everything and go" situation. I don't know what the radio traffic was like, but most times officers go into these situations not knowing any details of what's happening other than their colleagues are in immediate need of help and need to get there asap. Luckily it wasn't anything too serious that resulted in injuries. The officer who makes the call presses their Emergency button and gets priority radio traffic for a limited time, in this time they're expected to at least give their location, but that's easier said than done during violent confrontation or struggle. The resources involved in a response like this will usually consist of an entire Borough's Emergency Response Team (ERT) and sometimes from elsewhere which is why you see so many vehicles. However due to the recent borough merges I'm not sure how exactly this still works.

[@Dosedmonkey]

That's more police then most towns even have though thanks to the cuts!

[@keeneyeful]

Clearly the ones who are posting negative comments or think this was an over reaction have never had to deal with a situation going from bad to worse. Sure, a hospital seems like a calm and controlled environment, until someone who's ill and unstable goes off the deep end for whatever reason, then it's unpredictable chaos! Because of an illness (or chemical/psychological reaction) a person who was once easy to talk to is now acting unpredictably and is dangerous to themselves and others, such a response from police and internal security IS necessary in order to reduce harm to that patient as well as others. Been there, done that :)

[@laurenkay6258]

@@Dosedmonkey In my town the police station was closed down. If there is an incident in my town which is frequent the police have to come from another town.

[@bannon1000]

Shame they dont afford this to the vulnerable.....racing in a convoy to their own whilst they leave those young knife victims stabbed to death to simply die in the street. The police in UK needs a total re-think our police are a laughing stock.

[@isaacwood4071]

My dad's a paramedic when you push the emergency button you get 16 seconds of radio time 9n fire, police and ambulance so it isn't enough to fully explain what's happening

[@danlemarksman5571]

"Urgent assistance" is pretty much the equivalent to a Code 99 in the U.S where all available units in the area need to respond

[@tomgosy]

Gotta love an 'all call'

[@thearonhooks1621]

Or on the East Coast of the U.S., "Signal Zero"!

[@stevencrouch6036]

Yeap I believe its know as code zero, if you not dealing with something serious you stop what your doing and head to the scene as fast as you can. I seen on police series officer dealing with someone who was a little over the speed limit and a code zero came through they pretty much gave them a verbal warning and speed off, probably leaving the driver rather confused.

[@maxwellwynne-shepherd7852]

True dude

[@themessiah7542]

Status 0 is all units respond, State 13 is non urgent back up and state 14 is urgent back up Here in the UK ^

[@maxnye5693]

For those saying this is an over-reaction - an urgent assistance required call is the UK equivalent of "officer down" or "shots fired" - it is the shit-hit-the-fan-and-we-all-had-our-mouths-open button - the one thing every officer dreads hearing.

[@edgedoctor8389]

Remember the met can only respond like that because they still have the resources. Press your emergency button in most other forces and you won’t get the same response

[@amc3]

In Scotland this is a code 21, every available officer would attend. In most dangerous situations cross the UK, Joe public legs it while committed and dedicated Police officers, Fire Fighters and Medical Units speed to the location. Proud to be British, proud of our emergency services, just pisses me off when the government fails to pay them a proper wage with good conditions. We owe them so much more, respect to them all.

[@outrageousgamer315]

Really hope the Government puts a new law in to safe guard the Emergency Services.

[@charlieminaj2]

OutrageousGamer we need more laws to protect ourselves from cops and suspects, they protect each other

[@harmoneyreilly4225]

Are you having a laugh need way more things to protect the public from them lot inc the government

[@tinglydingle]

@@harmoneyreilly4225 Emergency services aren't just the polis

[@toby.maximillian]

I was there when that happened. I was just visiting london

[@andyfrost4657]

This is a great catch. When an officer requests urgent assistance, which I hope is rare, it’s every colleague who jumps into action and assist. The assistance may look like an over reaction, but I would guess when an officer presses his/her assistance button the situation could very easily deteriorate and everyone runs to help. NO ONE knows who will be on scene first. So good job officers, keep up the good work.

[@bannon1000]

Shame rape victims, people attacked and those with learning disabilities and pensioners are not afforded the same treatment.

[@Scotty1284]

not a cop but helped pull 2 guys off a cop just after he pushed his emergency button, within a minute or 2 we had 20 patrol officers, ARVs and senior officers pulling up... done a criminology assignment for uni, police request urgent assistance/emergency button every 6 mins in the UK on average...

[@bond0666]

Pity they not like that with the public, I suppose a corrupt bacon will save the bacon of a other corrupt bacon !

[@isaacwood4071]

My dad's a paramedic when you push the emergency button you get 16 seconds of radio time 9n fire, police and ambulance so it isn't enough to fully explain what's happening

[@mackenziebrannan1374]

@ Isaac Wood. When a police officer activates their emergency button all officers can hear what is going on for a longer time than 16 seconds. And for paramedics or other on the frontline health care professionals when they press their emergency button they will more than likely say what is going on in more detail of the arising situation and the control room can hear what is taking place. And for firefighters it is totally different as they have a more simple radio and they just press an assistance button if they need help with and incident that needs more fire men/women, if they require police or ambulance assistance they have to call down the channel manually.

[@montyzumazoom1337]

Seen something similar to this in Worthing. Driving home one day several police car passed me at high speed whilst I was in heavy town traffic. As I continued on my route I saw several more police vehicles coming from all directions, I think 8 cars actually went passed me. They seemed to all be heading in the direction I was going, and sure enough I eventually got to the place where that we parked everywhere. Someone attempted an armed robbery at a petrol station so the call went out. An incredible response, its was all over very quickly. Never seen so many police vehicles at the same place before.

[@oisinkeenan1501]

0:57 ummmm... We're those gun shots?

[@_iirespvwnii_3246]

Sure sounds like it

[@themadman1677]

nope was some exhaust in the background

[@ZefVolk]

It must have been a very mean tweet.

[@operatorsoperatinginoperat1808]

Hey. I was wondering if I could use a couple of seconds of this video for a UK police Montage, I'm making!

[@ReeceC17]

It’s sad to think that in you live in the UK and see a response like this it’s either an officer down or Terrorists attack.

[@Plumduff3303]

Its the weirdest feeling asking for assistance your in the shit you activate the response and out there you hear the distant wailing of sirens...you never forget the relief of seeing a colleague arriving to back you up...

[@bannon1000]

What a pity woman raped, children abused and people murdered are not afforded that relief. Its a corrupt, racist criminal cult that needs scrapping and starting again.

[@maarten3225]

@@bannon1000 So you think everyone should have a panic button? Lmfao, that's not manageable.

[@bannon1000]

@@maarten3225 Is aytending to violently raped woman not manageable?

[@maarten3225]

@@bannon1000 It is. But you're responding to a completely unrelated comment. Which would suggest that you think all women should have panic Buttons.

[@stevencrouch6036]

Even if I didnt know the circumstances of this, seeing that many vehicles heading the same direction I would know its definitely because someone activated there red button.

[@justkilian7795]

Kudos to you for blurring the number plate on the unmarked cars. ;)

[@LondonEmergency999]

Why? It's not required..

[@emvvehicles_8]

Why the license plate blurred

[@charlieminaj2]

Myrm Ants his private vehicle then?😂💀

[@thefiestaguy8831]

@@charlieminaj2 No... not blurring the registration would cause operational issues for that vehicle.

[@sebby324]

I’ve been past that hospital so many times it’s creepy all the ambulances and patients on clear view it’s horrible

[@Moscow-we1je]

Wow! Awesome catches!

[@mortgagewizard40]

Nice to see - great response - our NHS and emergency workers should not have to suffer behaviour like this, theres no excuse, no doubt when or IF it comes to court ,the person will not serve time.. Needs a effing good kicking

[@dxelson]

Is it normal to use sirens at night in the UK?

[@RabM1990]

Not normally but depending on the traffic and emergency they might. This was also recorded in November so could be as early as from 4pm onwards.

[@tomwebb3081]

It depends on the hazards* perceived by the driver of the vehicle. Because of this, emergency service vehicles have an exemption in law for the sounding of horns at night. *Hazards can mean anything from a pedestrian that might cross the road, to a busy/congested junction.

[@danbartley8066]

It gets dark early during winter months

[@rodneyclark7407]

Great video📼 what was the emergency about ❓

[@ViperUK]

Read the description

[@oscar4292]

How do you know all the details of the incident

[@ViperUK]

It's not the full details. This was mentioned by an Inspector on twitter.

[@alistairyoung9831]

Hello I am a teacher from Bradford. I am creating an educational video for young people teaching them about the importance of respecting our emergency services and recognising the sacrifices that they make every day. I would love to use some of your footage if I am allowed with crediting of course. Thanks so much.

[@sandymcghee3328]

Good video 👍👍

[@dartmoordave]

Why at a hospital of that size isn't there a permanent police presence?

[@suprememax4948]

They probably have security staff but police wouldnt be necessary most of the time. here it was and you can tell that it was a special situation

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Because police are not security. Hospitals employ their own security, almost always seems to be G4S, I'm a serving police officer and I've spent many many shifts in hospital, for up to 12 hours at a time, it's usually G4S security guards, they deal with internal aspects. We're normally kept busy by the person who we're in hospital for, i.e having sectioned somebody and having to remain with them, or remain with a detainee (prisoner) who's got an injury and gets taken to hospital. On the odd occasion every so often, something will happen whilst police are in hospital with a prisoner, or a sectioned person, and on of the two officers will have to run off to deal with it.

[@AA20V]

They don’t stop comin

[@friendlyneighbourhoodplatypus]

I’m rather curious about these ‘emergency assistance calls’. Do specialist units such as firearms, etc. attend these incidents?

[@nigelft]

From what little I have told, the Metropolitan Police only deploys one, or more, Firearms Unit (aka a Trojan Unit), if the Emergency Response officers find themselves at an 'Active Shooter' scene, or, when the officer in distress, discharged firearms can be heard during, and over, their emergency call. As for any other kinds of teams, again, it depends on the situation the other Responding Officers find themselves in ...

[@bannon1000]

Only if if its to help other police officers pensioners, sex attack victims, vulnerable people and knife attack victims can expect nothing like this.....like any cult they look after their own

[@thefiestaguy8831]

If they hear it, and are nearby, then yes. I've heard numerous urgent assistance calls go out, and you quite often hear Trojan and traffic cars responding. The last one I responded to, I was in a minibus with about 6 other officers, a police van driver had stopped a driver who he suspected was drunk, as soon as he pulled him over, the guy got out of his car and started to run, this officer, did remarkably well, in tackling this guy to the floor (who was at least a foot taller than him, and far bigger built), the officer was also single crewed, on his own, so pressed his emergency button. We responded, and a dog unit that just happened to be about 100 metres up the road ahead of us also responded, partially clearing a path for us also, a traffic unit then arrived 2 minutes later followed by another station van, which was double crewed.

[@harmoneyreilly4225]

Hi thank you amazing can you make more videos x

[@warsawrescue]

Super 👍

[@thamesvalley999backup2]

Great catch why did the hospital require urgent assistance

[@wallasalzburg]

ThamesValley PoliceFireAmbulance read the description

[@johndean4998]

That's more police vehicles than we have in the whole of Somerset. I was living in North London in 1982 and saw 3 police vehicles with 5 officers respond with full 'blues & twos' to arrest a boy illegally riding his bicycle across Primrose Hill Park. Looks like little has changed.

[@ktd2956]

It's amazing how many police officers can respond to one of their colleagues being spat at yet when Joe public calls for help your lucky if they turn up at all.whole list of crimes that police don't even attempt to attend now.

[@lightningpete]

If all the police get assaulted and injured because they dont bother to respond to their colleagues. How do you expect any incidents at all to be attended too.

[@nofts_yt]

great video!! What was going on?

[@wallasalzburg]

RO-bloxy_gamer read the description.

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

It's interesting to see the unmarked police cars didn't activate headlight flashers and put beacon lights on their roofs.

[@lightningpete]

Dont have them in most cars in the UK. They are generally grille lights and rear lights.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Completely unnecessary, most patrol cars don't have them, you'll usually find the odd roof beacon or two laying around in a station store cupboard somewhere, but they are almost never used anymore, because most unmarked cars nowadays are actually fitted out with covert LED lights and sirens, so the need for a roof mounted beacon is pretty much gone. The station I used to work out of had one, just one. It hadn't been used in years, it stopped working at some point, and because it wasn't ever used, it was never replaced, an officer found it laying around in a store cupboard once whilst looking for something else. Next thing you know for a bit of a laugh, after a briefing, when everyone is stood outside, getting their cars loaded up with kit bags and checking their cars, two officers would get into a car, a colleague would come over and pretend to talk to the driver, whilst discreetly putting the beacon on the roof of the car. Just before they drove out the gate they would notice all their colleagues stood there laughing their asses off and would usually twig. If they didn't, before they drove out, the 'joker' would tell them and take it off.

[@YelpBullhorn]

And yet if your house gets burgled they don't even bother coming out to you.

[@lightningpete]

Burgled past tense. Panic button for help present tense. Slight difference. Burglarys imo should still be attended too, obviously the nature of the response i.e. time would dictate the type of burglary... I.e. aggravated and so forth.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Moronic comment. Burgled... in the past, suspects gone, no threat to life, no chance of catching the offender by getting officers there at break-neck speed. Or... officer, or officers struggling with a violent patient, who's assaulting them and members of hospital staff, and quite possibly the public who are in the hospital too. Given that officers have a duty to protect the public, as well as themselves, the responding officers will be going to the aid, potentially, of both their colleagues and the public. By not sending a unit, or units immediately, you endanger the lives of those in the struggle, and possibly risk ending up with serious life-changing or threatening injuries sustained to those involved, or worse. COMPLETELY different.

[@GooseMcSwan]

Then there was no space on the ramp for any ambulances bringing in a red call...

[@ViperUK]

As soon as enough officers were inside the hospital and had things under control (which wasn't that long) they moved their vehicles and parked them outside. Luckily there were no ambulances that urgently needed to use the ramp. Should there ever be a time where the police vehicles were there longer/if the situation wasn't resolved as quick, I'd imagine ambulances would be made aware of the situation from their control room/hospital and divert them to other hospitals.

[@mortgagewizard40]

Chances are, the hospital could have gone to black status (I think its black status) and temporarily stopped any priority calls coming in and re routed them

[@THEMRHITMAN196]

@@mortgagewizard40 this is how it works in U.S. Atleast when I worked in a hospital and in EMS. The whole hospital usually goes into locked down where no one goes in or out and all patients get diverted to other hospitals. Now if it's something super urgent and there is not something closer. Either a helicopter will continue transport or police will escort in and out.

[@tomwebb3081]

Having brought in a pt during a similar situation in a different part of the country, we just stop where we need to and unload. A police "state zero" wouldn't always cause a lockdown, but if a full divert is put in place en route we just change direction.

[@tommymc7617]

Would say it's a bit overkill as well, understand the urgent response but would say once there is an additional 5 cars there then rest could be stood down for other stuff.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

You realise some of those vehicles contain only 1 officer, right? So although there might be "10 vehicles" going, which have the capacity to perhaps seat maybe up to 60 officers (if you include the 2 minibuses)... most of the time there will be 1 or 2 officers per vehicle, so even with 10 vehicles that's usually, at most, 20 officers.

[@grahammarsden4130]

I'm from Lancaster Lancashire and its they same here, there seems to be about 3 or 4 police cars turning up for the slightest little thing.

[@derya94b]

I read the description and was that amount really necessary for that particular incident? Surley just 4 officers could've handled that one person 🤦‍♀️

[@bond0666]

McDonald's was closing earlier then usual, the pigs needed to respond

[@BDN---lf1ei]

The police is salty asf over there

[@boringperson-zb8vy]

Says the guy in the country that has officers using tasers as 'pain compliance tools' and guns as the only resort in self-defence.

[@charlieminaj2]

Andrew because that’s the only way🖕🏻

[@boringperson-zb8vy]

@@charlieminaj2 Sure.

[@vsboy2577]

The Queen must be under attack .

[@Lemuriam]

I mean spitting is disgusting and a potential health risk to the receiver, but still its seems over the top to report having been spit at as "injuries". A call for urgent assistance is possible I guess, in the heat of the fight starting and given that its a hospital and all. it still SEEMS over the top given the information that is availible.

[@ViperUK]

Unfortunately I don't have full details of what else happened during that time. All that was confirmed was that the patient became violent towards medical professionals and police, 2 officers were spat at some point during the incident and that there were no other reported injuries. For all we know there could've been a violent struggle and given the environment of a hospital with equipment that can be used as weapons, anything could've happened.

[@charlieminaj2]

ViperUK assumptions then? Because we only know as 2 cops got spat at and no other reported issues? Therefore the panic button in this case is an overreaction🤫💀

[@rocco02121]

And the “information available” is basically sod all. If the cops need that many then let them get on with it, we weren’t there and have no idea what went on.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

@@charlieminaj2 Absolutely clueless. Until you know better, and you've been in these situations, and done it... be quiet.

[@061zgz]

Great

[@jd-ii4vz]

This is just a normal night in central London.

[@user-ei3dq2dw6i]

French sirens are RUBBISH

[@newcastleemergencyvehicles849]

Nice

[@EV-Diary]

Great catch but isn’t this a bit of an over the top response?? Why do you need that umber of officers. No wonder there aren’t enough on patrol in London you have 20 responding to one violent guy

[@ViperUK]

An urgent assistance call is something all police officers dread and is a "drop everything and go" situation. I don't know what the radio traffic was like, but most times officers go into these situations not knowing any details of what's happening other than their colleagues are in immediate need of help and need to get there asap. Luckily it wasn't anything too serious that resulted in injuries.

[@nigelft]

We only know that it was just one guy as the outcome; but given that St. Thomas' is a Major Trauma Center, then a 'urgent assist' call could be literally anything and everything, hence the overwhelming response. In a situation like that, when hard information is scant, except for a report of a 'disturbance', and very little else, then of course the response will be 'drop everything, and go'. One other thing; if you have never seen a person having a psychotic episode, then don't. I have a fair few acquaintances whom practice trauma medicine, and an out of control, psychotic, patient, is perhaps their worse nightmare. Trying to control such a patient, without putting the lives of the staff, nor indeed, the patient, at risk, can be nigh on impossible, especially given during a nightshift when the number of hospital staff available to deal with a violent patient is lower that during the day. Ironically, given that incidents requiring police tend to tail off past midnight, it often leads to much faster response times.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

No, most definitely not. I've been in a very similar situation at the very end of a hectic night shift, 2 colleagues of mine were at a hospital on a hospital guard with a male under arrest who was being assessed, a guy started kicking off in the next corridor, so one of the officers went to sort it out, another bloke then walked in and started shouting and screaming, he then became violent to staff and so had to be restrained, the officer had to leave the man (Under arrest still) at hospital with security guards to prevent him from walking off before running off to deal with the violent bloke. The colleague managed to calm down the first bloke and came to assist her colleague in what was now a roll around on the floor, you then had all his friends turn up who were quite clearly anti-police, shouting abuse at them and recording it on their phones. The female officer was remarkably calm over the radio, asking for "just one more unit to assist", we all knew what she meant and we could hear screaming in the background, every unit that wasn't dealing with something was scrambled, myself and my colleague had just got our food at around 5AM (1.5 hours til shift end) after a long night without having had a chance to eat. Straight into the car, off at high speed en-route, it still took us as a good 10 minutes plus even on blues and twos to arrive, we were about the 5th unit there, more arrived later. Me and my colleague dealt with the crowd of his friends who were now outside, 6 officers had the male who had kicked off on the floor in leg restraints and cuffed. It transpired unknown to us, he had apparently smashed up the police vehicle outside in the car park, before coming inside and kicking off, forcing the officers there to intervene, at one point he had one of them pinned up against the wall and was punching him. When you're on duty and you feel your radio vibrate and hear the dreaded "beep beep beep" and it flashes up with the words "Emergency in use" on the screen you get shivers down your spine, I just wanted to get there to help, yes you might not get along with all of the people on your team, but you're all one big family, I know my colleagues would have my back if I hit my emer button so I want to go to theirs. Having spent many hours in hospitals on hospital guards with arrested prisoners, I can also tell you that hospitals are usually awful for radio coverage, often your mobile phone will have far better service. So to answer the question, no, this most definitely is not overkill. For all his colleagues knew he could have just come across someone trying to kill him with a knife.

[@nigelft]

@@thefiestaguy8831 Yesh ... sounds like a total nightmare ... given the size of disturbance, did a TSU, or two, turn up as well, or do you have to specifically request for them ...? And do you mind saying how it all ended, and if any officers were injured in that mess ... As a side note, I happen to have known a few officers, personally, in my life time, including one whom was the father of a classmate whom was a 'Dog Officer'; he had a couple of retired GSDs, whom were adorably dopey; and another guy I know, is now an inspector, but in child protection, both of the Met. Heck, way back when, my history teacher in comprehensive school, was an ex-sergeant, also Met. Great guy, had always an interesting story for us kids ... So through them, and a couple of others, you hear tell stories like yours, so I can appreciate, abet third hand, the kind of chill in the spine when those beeps go off ... makes me wonder in the fabled rumour of Golf Lima Foxtrot isn't entirely unreasonable, as long as the driver knows what they are doing ...

[@thefiestaguy8831]

@@nigelft I'm met myself. I have just been given approval to sit my basic driving exam, however, I've known officers to do things they shouldn't do. For instance I know of one ocassion where an officer with a basic permit drove at speed, in order to get to a PI RTC (Personal injury RTC), because no response vehicles were free to deal, being a basic driver means you cannot run blues to a call, or use the siren at all, you're supposed to obey the speed limit and are not allowed to make use of any exemptions such as those afford to response or advanced drivers, i.e ignoring keep left signs, treating red lights as a give way, ignoring the speed limit etc. The issue being with the lack of funding and not enough response driver trained officers, inevitably you end up with a panda (a basic driver) taking an Immediate grade call, which almost always warrants a blue light run with a target response time of 15 minutes. That said, whilst he did speed, he didn't take what I deem to be unnecessary risks, or drive dangerously, it's my personal view that minor speeding is frowned upon too much these days, provided the standard or driving, alertness, concentration is there I don't mind people speeding to a degree, it's those that take the piss, i.e doing 60/70 through a 30, I call it common sense policing, if I deem it that they're endangering someone I will take action. On another occasion after having assisted surrey police with a breakdown on a steep narrow twisty hill the surrey officer had just come across on patrol, our 59 reg car had issues with the clutch, the driver tried but the clutch wouldn't go up enough to make the car go up the hill, if he lifted it any higher, even with loads of revs it would just stall. He had no choice but to roll down the hill and turn around on a slightly less steep part of the hill, our car then started throwing thin wisps of white smoke from the bonnet, at that point the driver stuck blues on and hit the siren and we blue lighted it most of the way back to the nick, his justification for doing so was that if the car gave out, or properly caught fire whilst we were stuck several miles from the station, we'd need to wait for the recovery firm to come and pick the vehicle up, and once that had been done then someone else would have to pick us up, take us back to the station just to get another vehicle, meaning we'd have been off the road for a minimum of 1 hour, possibly 2 or more. Although he drove on blues and used the siren, again, his level of driving was very good, believe it or not most basic drivers (myself included) would be perfectly capable of taking and passing a response course, it's just the case of a lack of funding for the training courses, we get issued a set amount per year on each borough, each team will get given say 2 response courses per year, those 2 courses have to split amongst say 10 people who are basic drivers and want to get response permits, it's those who have been waiting the longest who generally get it first, typically the average wait in the Met is around 3-5 years from joining the job, although I've known some people to wait as long as 7 or 8 years, and at one point I met an officer who had been in the job for 16 years and was still only a basic, although that was through his own personal choice, most officers at 15 or 16 years in are either very experienced response drivers, or area car drivers trained to RT level, which is the highest level there is and involves an extremely intensive 20 day course. In the met TSU are called "TSG", Support Group rather than Support Unit, same way our Firearms are callsign Trojan. No, they didn't turn up, at that time I don't believe TSG officers were on duty on our borough, they're pan london and you don't always see them on the borough i'm working at, especially on nights when this incident took place. When the emer button goes off, anyone tuned into that Borough's link will hear it, as well as the controllers, it pinpoints on their map the officer who pressed the button and they immediately call them up on the radio via their shoulder number "collar number" as it was formerly known, you'll tend to find their colleagues will start making progress to them regardless, however if they get no response from the officer then everyone will assume the worst and everyone will start going to the assistance call. Officers of course, have accidentally set it off in the past, so it's always a relief to hear "Cancel cancel, set off in error" when hearing the emergency button activation go off. In the end there were a total of about 12 officers, plus 1 team sergeant, so plenty to assist. The officer who was assaulted nicked the guy for criminal damage to police vehicle and assault on police (against himself). The guy was charged was the last I heard, although I do not know what the outcome was, this was several months ago and you don't usually hear about the final outcome. Although the officer was punched in the face, they were minor punches, so rather leaving red marks and impact pain than causing any lasting injuries. The suspect was suffering from MH issues, and his friends seemed to think it was unfair we arrested him and used handcuffs and leg restraints and carried him into a van, because according to them it's acceptable to smash up a police vehicle and assault an officer if you suffer from Mental Health.....

[@aydencaldwell2472]

Am sorry but ALLLLL THATTT for one guy ? What was wrong with sending another car , what can 3-4 police officers not deal with a single guy

[@ViperUK]

Please read other comments below. During an "urgent assistance" call officers won't know the details of what's happening other than their colleague is in need of help asap. For all we know the patient could've seriously injured several people and/or the patient may have had accomplices.

[@Samara.Weaving]

Training Exercise

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Most definitely not. This is absolutely not a training exercise. This is a prime example of an emergency button activation if ever I saw one.

[@valathaerieldawnblade6075]

Officer spat at: Brigade-strength response, fast air, armour and mechanised infantry. Normal guy stabbed: Meh, no officers available.

[@ae4042]

If the guy has already been stabbed how are the police meant to help the guy? It's the paramedics that help him, the police investigate and catch the people that stabbed him.

[@hurchgoer]

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[@natty5861]

Waste of money

[@gary63693]

and people say the Police struggle on their budgets? ha ha, i think this proves otherwise

[@HMSDaring1]

Met Police is one of the few forces that has large numbers. Look at crime stats, particularly for certain crimes like burglaries. Shot up because the police forces are too busy. Watching one video on YT doesn’t disprove what police chiefs are saying across the UK

[@juliuseskola1281]

@@HMSDaring1 Yea...the Met is definately an exception(Maybe GMP and West Midlands? Dunno.), they have the same budget as our military (I live in an European nation, not some developing country).

[@nightfury8440]

Eskola there are developing nations with higher military budgets than some European nations.

[@juliuseskola1281]

@@nightfury8440 Well yeah, true. But those countries have relatively rich governments (not if you compare per person but overall), I mean like some with very crappy government and virtually no rich people at all (not like India).

[@OJMcleaningsanddetailing]

Jj

[@jackcutts6634]

They were spat at so they pressed their panic buttons. Call for assistance but not the whole bloody force to come down haha

[@domwaller7391]

Oink oink

[@suprememax4948]

stfu you pathetic farm animal

[@vsboy2577]

Police state

[@mikeyvegas1308]

Hopefully one of the 60 units had a wet wipe on board to wipe the spit off 🙄

[@Dwevy]

Read the pinned comment, would do you some good if in general you'd actually take the time to look around rather than reading headlines.

[@Sam-bz1hr]

Slight over reaction to some dude spitting lol great video though 😀