Reuben Junior Charles, 53 and of Muscliffe Road, Bournemouth A MAN has been jailed after he spat towards a police officer. Reuben Junior Charles, 53, committed the assault at Bournemouth custody centre, having been arrested for an unrelated matter. The incident took place when Charles became agitated and spat at the officer through a cell hatch on September 5 last year. He was charged with assaulting an emergency worker and appeared at Poole Magistrates’ Court on May 5. Charles pleaded guilty to the offence as well as a breach of a conditional discharge order made by magistrates’ in August 2020 for being drunk and disorderly and possessing class B drugs.
THE constable who was hospitalised for Covid days after being spat at by a man in Bournemouth is now back on frontline policing duties PC Joe Terry tested positive for the coronavirus a few days after the incident in Charminster Road, Bournemouth, on January 6. Along with a colleague, he d been arresting a man for being drunk and disorderly, when he was intentionally spat at with force. Steven Licorish, 41, of no fixed abode, has since pleaded guilty to a charge of assault by beating of an emergency worker and is due to be sentenced next month. Two days after the incident PC Terry developed Covid-19 symptoms, and subsequently tested positive for the virus.
Dorset Police officers are driving ambulances to aid NHS during pandemic, and inset, Chief Constable James Vaughan POLICE officers in Dorset are stepping up to drive ambulances as health services come under increasing pressures due to the coronavirus pandemic. A formal request for assistance was made by South Western Ambulance Service this week to provide additional blue-light emergency drivers. And Dorset Police Chief Constable James Vaughan has answered this call with around a dozen officers expected to assist their fellow frontline service. He said the situation was “all hands to the pump” during the medical emergency. Will Warrender, chief executive of South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT), said: “We are experiencing sustained and increasingly high levels of demand on our service due to coronavirus across the South West.