| glugsTamgisse | Date: Thursday, 2012-10-04, 19:12:02 | Message # 1 |
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| A 37-year-old senior constable was hospitalised soon after getting "king hit" during a brawl outside a hotel in Temora in southern NSW late last night.
Police said the officer had allegedly intervened in the fight and had tried to help a man who was lying injured on the town's main street, when he was hit in the head by an unknown male.
The policeman was unconscious for about 10 minutes before getting taken to Temora Hospital, where he is recovering from a concussion and severe facial swelling, police said.
Wagga Wagga Local Area Commander Superintendent David Simmons said violence against police was becoming far too common.
"I am sick and tired of my officers currently being subjected to booze-fuelled violence on a weekly basis," Supt Simmons said in a statement today.
"Let me be crystal clear, I will not tolerate my police officers becoming used as punching bags at the end of a night of drunken excess."
He warned it was only a matter of time before the offenders were found.
Meanwhile in Sydney's south, shortly right after midnight (AEDT) today, police were called to a nightclub at Cronulla following an intoxicated patron allegedly refused to leave.
A plain-clothes constable asked the 26-year-old man to leave the Cronulla Street premises.
The man allegedly hit the officer in the head several times when he attempted to arrest him.
Nearby police arrested the Como man, who was taken to Miranda police station where he was charged with assaulting police, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and resisting arrest.
He has been granted conditional bail and will appear at Sutherland Local Court on November 24.
The officer suffered swelling and bruising to his face but did not need hospital treatment.
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