Outgoing Norfolk commissioner renews demand for long jail terms on police attacks
| Updated: 18:06, 02 February 2021
Norfolkâs outgoing police and crime commissioner (PCC) has called for minimum five-year prison sentences for people who assault officers or try to infect them with Covid.
The commissioner, Lorne Green, made the statement during a meeting of the Police and Crime Panel on Tuesday.
At the meeting, Mr Green described himself as âfrustrated and angryâ saying the assaults and police officers being spat at needed to be addressed as a âmatter of urgent necessityâ.
Lorne Green.
The PCC said the most recent figures showed spitting or coughing incidents at officers had risen to 9.7 per month by November 2020, up from 5.7 in March.