{"id":24819,"date":"2023-01-30T03:49:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/30\/essex-police-hails-pc-as-britains-fastest-cop\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T03:49:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:49:59","slug":"essex-police-hails-pc-as-britains-fastest-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=24819","title":{"rendered":"Essex Police hails PC as &#8216;Britain\u2019s fastest cop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A police officer has been nicknamed &#8220;Britain&#8217;s fastest cop&#8221; by colleagues following a flawless record when it comes to chasing down suspects on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">PC Luke Watson, who is the acting Sergeant for the Waltham Abbey Town Team, has a &#8220;100% record in footraces against suspects&#8221;, Essex Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In nearly six years as a police officer, nobody attempting to flee has got away from him,&#8221; the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The officer, who is also a rugby player, chased down suspects in a van carrying stolen goods and &#8220;overpowered and arrested&#8221; a woman holding a Stanley knife. The couple inside were later convicted of theft, possession of a bladed article and possession of a class A drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">PC Watson said: &#8220;I really enjoy my job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-suffolk-64408165?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A police officer has been nicknamed &#8220;Britain&#8217;s fastest cop&#8221; by colleagues following a flawless record when it comes to chasing down suspects on foot. PC Luke Watson, who is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}