{"id":214004,"date":"2025-12-28T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:29:10","slug":"14-psni-officers-assaulted-in-st-stephens-day-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214004\/","title":{"rendered":"14 PSNI officers assaulted in St Stephen&#8217;s Day incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen PSNI officers were assaulted across Fermanagh, east Tyrone, Armagh and south Down in separate incidents on St Stephen&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 assaults included a biting incident which led to one officer being hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>PSNI Chief Inspector Adam Ruston condemned the violence, describing it as a shocking number of assaults on police, which he said is &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This type of behaviour places members of the public and our officers at risk of serious harm and we are lucky not to be dealing with serious injuries,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers were injured when a car rammed a patrol vehicle in Forkhill in south Armagh. The car later crossed over the border, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Insp Ruston appealed to the public for information on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At around 1.40am a silver Renault Megane collided with a police car on patrol in the area. The vehicle failed to stop and then fled across the border,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result, two officers were injured and the patrol vehicle sustained damage which will render it unusable for the foreseeable future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen PSNI officers were assaulted across Fermanagh, east Tyrone, Armagh and south Down in separate incidents on St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-214004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}