Three heroic police officers have been nominated for the National Police Bravery Awards 2024 after a violent assault by a knife-wielding man

PCs Ian Hide, John Rimmer and Nathan Beavin were on plain clothes duty on 5 December 2022 when they were approached by two members of the public who said a man had just threatened them and tried to stab them. The man was still close by and in possession of a bottle.

PCs Hide and Beavin walked through a nearby alley while PC Rimmer drove his vehicle to the other end of the alley to contain the man, 35-year-old Thomas McComish. It was then that PCs Beavin and Hide located McComish, who began to lunge and slash at PC Hide with a large kitchen knife.

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