{"id":339872,"date":"2025-12-28T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:06:10","slug":"justice-minister-condemns-assaults-on-police-officers-across-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339872\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice minister condemns assaults on police officers across NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is utterly unacceptable that any police officer should come under attack for simply doing their job,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are dads, mums, sons and daughters; they miss out on time with their loved ones over the Christmas period to keep our communities safe and they should be supported to carry out their duties free from the fear of being assaulted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that an attack on the police was &#8220;an attack on everyone&#8221;, as injured officers cannot work and damaged vehicles cannot be used which &#8220;impacts on the ability of the police to respond to emergencies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The minister reiterated her intention to introduce legislation to give tougher sentences to people who assault officers or any person &#8220;who is providing services to the public, performing a public duty or delivering a public service&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It is utterly unacceptable that any police officer should come under attack for simply doing their job,&#8221; she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-339872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}