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Mr Mills said: “There is the perceived threat of the knife, they (the officers) tried … grabbing the knife, which failed, they tried with threatening Pava, which is not getting a result.

Brunswick Park Primary and Nursery School has been targeted on four occasions and nearby Church Hill Primary School has been hit twice – most recently on Sunday night. The attackers, who used ...

"I just wanted the knife out of the gent's hand", PC Smith said, adding that he tried to "knock the knife out of Mr Burgess's hand" by using the baton. Ian Mills, a police use-of-force adviser ...