Crime

Zero tolerance for attacks on police officers: Tudravu

November 12, 2019 6:39 am

The Acting Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu says they have zero tolerance for those that attack their officers.

ACP Tudravu was responding to a spate of attacks on police officers over the weekend which led to 17 men arrested in Levuka in one incident alone, with three police officers sustaining injuries in the confrontation.

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“In regards to attacks against police officers, I’m so, I’m just stating here that I got agitated when I hear people attacking police officers when they are merely doing their work and we are doing out work in order to protect the community themselves and why certain person would like just to come and attack the police officers when we are doing our job.”

Meanwhile, a 37-year-old carpenter was yesterday charged with one count of Criminal Intimidation and one count of Serious Assault after he allegedly attacked a Police Officer wielding an axe at the Cunningham community police post.

In two other incidents, one police officer was threatened while issuing a ticket to a driver allegedly illegally parked and another sustained injuries to his face after a man suspected to have drugs on him resisted arrest.

Regarding the Levuka case, ACP Tudravu deployed a 20 men team on Sunday from Suva’s Special Response Unit as back-up for the officers in old capital.

The police officers had initially tried to break up an after-hours drinking party in the town which involved 20 men from several nearby villages when they were chased and threatened and had to call on officers from the National Fire Authority and Fiji Corrections Service for help.