{"id":886894,"date":"2026-09-10T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:36:13","slug":"steven-hyde-keeps-job-with-nsw-police-despite-assault-on-man-on-hospital-stretcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886894\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Hyde keeps job with NSW Police despite assault on man on hospital stretcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NSW Police officer has kept his job despite being found guilty of assaulting a man who was being wheeled into hospital on a gurney by paramedics.<\/p>\n

ABC News has obtained exclusive CCTV and body-worn camera vision of the assault, which happened at Blacktown Hospital in November 2023.<\/p>\n

Leading Senior Constable Steven Hyde and his partner on the day, Constable Talaisai Alo, had been called to a man’s Western Sydney home, where they found him unconscious after a suspected drug overdose.<\/p>\n

An ambulance was called and paramedics managed to rouse the man before taking him to Blacktown Hospital for observation.<\/p>\n

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The incident occured at Blacktown Hospital’s emergency department. (ABC News: Jak Rowland)<\/p>\n

The man was not under arrest, but the two police officers escorted them to the hospital.<\/p>\n

When they arrived, CCTV footage from the hospital shows the man being wheeled into the emergency department in the ambulance bay, with his legs strapped to the gurney.<\/p>\n

He was holding a vape in one hand and a water bottle in the other when Officer Hyde approached and confiscated the vape.<\/p>\n

The man then threw the water bottle over his shoulder, prompting Officer Hyde to react by hitting him in the side of the head.<\/p>\n

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Officer Alo then grabs the man and restrains him, shortly before his body-worn camera begins recording audio of the incident.<\/p>\n

The man can be heard saying, “I put water on you” before asking the officer to let go of his arm.<\/p>\n

The officer tells the man, “I’ll f***ing rip your shoulder off if you don’t listen to me”, before handcuffing the man behind his back.<\/p>\n

The officer then tells the man he is being charged with assaulting police, before wheeling him into the hospital as he says, “Keep your head down, no-one deserves to look at you.”<\/p>\n

The body camera vision ends as the man is wheeled into the emergency room.<\/p>\n

Officer claims he acted in self-defence\"Two<\/p>\n

The man was strapped to a stretcher during the assault. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

An ambulance officer who witnessed the incident later gave a statement to police, saying she also heard one of the police officers say to the man inside the hospital: “Why do you want to go home? No-one cares about you.”<\/p>\n

She did not specify which officer said it.<\/p>\n

Officer Hyde was later charged with assault for hitting the man in the head.<\/p>\n

Officer Alo has not been charged over the incident.<\/p>\n

Officer Hyde, who had been a police officer for more than a decade, faced a local court hearing earlier this year, where he tendered a written statement claiming he acted in self-defence.<\/p>\n

“Almost immediately after I turned, I felt something strike my right shoulder and back area \u2026 my initial belief was that [the victim] had assaulted me,” his statement said.<\/p>\n

“I was very concerned that his behaviour had now escalated and he would continue his assault upon me.<\/p>\n

“To prevent this happening, I turned and struck [the victim].”<\/p>\n

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CCTV captured the incident. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Officer Hyde said the man “appeared to be drug-affected” and his response was based on “extensive experience dealing with people affected by drugs”.<\/p>\n

“It is my experience that many illegal drugs that are extensively used on the street result in people becoming extremely unpredictable, irrational and violent,” his statement said.<\/p>\n

“When [the victim] regained consciousness, he was immediately argumentative \u2026 he was swearing and aggressive, although not directly threatening to me.”<\/p>\n

Officer Hyde was found guilty of assault by a Local Court Judge earlier this year before he appealed the conviction and sentence in the District Court.<\/p>\n

This week, a District Court judge again found him guilty of assault but opted not to record a conviction against him.<\/p>\n

The judge sentenced him to a 12-month good behaviour bond.<\/p>\n

A statement from NSW Police this week said Officer Hyde remains on the force and was “subject to management action” in June.<\/p>\n

“The officer has also been subjected to a loss of rank, two years of restricted duties and will be required to undertake retraining under a management plan,” a spokesperson said in the statement.<\/p>\n

“Police will continue to monitor the actions of the officer and undertake regular reviews of his conduct.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NSW Police officer has kept his job despite being found guilty of assaulting a man who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[456304,64,63,456310,456303,37958,44,5847,4277,456305,456307,456306,327491,456308,456309,182874,240354],"class_list":["post-886894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-abc-news-exclusive","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blacktown-hospitals-emergency-department","tag-body-cam-vision","tag-cctv","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-nsw-police-assault","tag-nsw-police-officer-punching-a-man","tag-officer-assualt","tag-police-officer-assault","tag-steven-john-hyde","tag-steven-john-hyde-officer","tag-sydney-news","tag-sydney-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}