A SEAFORD man who scuffled with PSOs in the Carrum station car park on Saturday night, 10 September, has been charged with several offences, including assaulting an emergency worker on duty.
Police said the protective services officers became involved in a row with three “aggressive and alcohol-affected males” who they said were abusing a taxi driver.
The men became “uncooperative and more aggressive” when they got out of the taxi and a struggle ensued with one of the men, 9pm. A PSO was kicked to the back of the head and the alleged offender, 45, scraped his forehead on the concrete. The other men were said to be verbally aggressive to the PSOs while being directed to leave the area but were not involved in the scuffle.
Mordialloc and Caulfield police who arrived to assist the PSOs said the offender was still “continuing to resist violently and refusing orders to put his hands behind his back” for handcuffing.
The police said they had to use their batons to manipulate the man’s arms behind his back. He was charged at the scene with assaulting an emergency worker, resisting emergency worker and being drunk in a public place and taken to Moorabbin police station “until sober enough to be interviewed”.
The man will be summonsed to appear at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court at a later date.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 14 September 2016