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Critical Incident

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The stories of emergency service workers assaulted in the line of duty.

Risking their lives to save others - and sometimes becoming the victims themselves. Bodycams and CCTV provide jaw-dropping footage of 999ers in the thick of it.

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Critical Incident: Series 1: Episode 1

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BBC One - Critical Incident, Series 1, Episode 1

A police officer is stabbed in the arm as he tries to prevent a robbery.

A police officer is stabbed in the arm as he tries to help a shopkeeper trapped inside a convenience store with a knifeman.

In Hartlepool, PC Mick Johnson is stabbed in the arm as he attends reports of a man behaving strangely at a local convenience store. The shopkeeper is trapped inside with the knifeman, so Mick heads in to get her to safety. 
Elsewhere, a policewoman is mown down by a driver trying to resist arrest, but she fights to get back on the beat. And a firefighter has his final round of surgery following ten years of treatment after a brick thrown through his window broke his nose in 11 places.

Critical Incident: Series 1

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With attacks on emergency service workers on the rise, this series uses bodycam and CCTV footage to tell the stories of brave 999ers assaulted in the line of duty.

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