Well, where do I start, in the early hours of this morning I was on duty at my local police station when we received a disturbing call of domestic violence just down the road from the railway station where I am based. The nearest Devon and Cornwall police unit was 3 miles away so we decided to go and assist and get an understanding of what is going on when we arrive at the said property we heard no such thing happening when the D and C unit arrived we decided to approach the property and knock on the door. Me being the first officer at the door I heard some noise and scuffling behind the door so I do the generic "Its the Police we would like to have a chat" around 1 minute passes when a male who is fairly large in size opens the door and so I start inquiring about the said case of domestic violence that had been reported he says he knows nothing of the sort but then in the background I hear an older woman crying so I politely tell him I'm going to be coming into the property him knowing that we were onto what he was doing decided to politely greet me with a sander file which I only describe as a saw blade for filing things like wood and metal.
He manages to get my arm when I raise to defend myself and severed a vein leading to a decent amount of blood going over him,myself and his front door me not fully aware of what just happened I ran at him leading to use falling on his porch floor and having a scuffle was he seriously injured his hand leading to one of his fingers needing amputating. I then scream for help when my supervisor manages to use his taser to effectively save my life! where we fell back and articulated what was going on. It turned out he was beating his girlfriend for spending money on food for his small 6-year-old girl and he didn't have enough alcohol for the night...
I would just like to point out this won't be in mainstream media on local news as it isn't a "Big Issue" with myself only needing 13 stitches and a cast on my arm for the next three months. But these things happen to police officers daily and would like to point out it doesn't happen to just police paramedics get their fair amount of it.
all in all, if you did read all that thank you but when you are looking at mainstream media and incidents like London, of course, it is tragic but there is a lot more going on behind the scenes which you don't see.