A Hampshire police officer has been stabbed several times whilst attending a concern for welfare call in Southampton.
The officer was deployed to check on the welfare of a man living at an address on Portswood Road in the city just after midday today (Thursday). The officer attending was then stabbed several times.
His injuries are serious, but not life threatening. His family has been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
A 51-year-old man from Southampton has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He remains in police custody at this time.
Detective Chief Inspector Dave Brown has this evening said:
“Our thoughts are very much with the officer and his family at this time.
“We have a man in custody arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and we progressing the investigation, carrying out enquiries, conducting house to house visits and scoping CCTV opportunities.
“At the same time, we are providing support to the officer’s family and his colleagues following this incident.
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Anyone with any information regarding this incident should call 101 and quote 44200400513.
Of course you have to bring this up on an article about an officers stabbing, please stop it with the fear mongering, especially when the article your commenting on is about an attempted murder
What you chatting? Already here if you stopped to look up from your phone for 2 minutes? Austerity they called it thats caused all this, mismanagement from the top and we all let this happen
I never knew Southampton is on the Isle of Wight . . .
Maybe it was an Isle of wight officer
The article does clearly state it is a regional news piece. Hampshire Constabulary serve the Island and with Southampton being so close, we took the decision to include this news as it may be of interest to Islanders and members of the emergency service community.
IE any update on the man hunt in lake/shanklin last week or is he still on the run?