Portsmouth News report:

FIFTEEN police officers a week in our area are assaulted in the line of duty, The News can reveal.

John Apter, chairman of Hampshire Police Federation, is calling on the public to ‘play their part’ and for the courts to deal with attacks on officers ‘robustly.’

His appeal comes as figures in a Freedom of Information request obtained by The News show 2,895 officers were attacked in the line of duty in Hampshire in the past three financial years to April 2013.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.