Police have issued an appeal after officers were attacked while attempting to arrest a group of men following reports of teenage girls being harassed.
One officer suffered an injury to his thumb after being assaulted by three men.
Members of the force were trying to de-escalate a street disturbance in Nottingham city centre.
Another officer was punched to the head and pushed around during the incident before using PAVA incapacitant spray as he tried to detain the men.
Police were eventually able to arrest three suspects on suspicion of sexual assault and assaulting an emergency worker.
They were forced to use a taser on one of the attackers.
The attack, which occurred at the corner of North Church Street and Trinity Square, resulted in one officer needing hospital treatment.
The incident took place shortly after midnight on Sunday, October 10.
Detective Constable Ben Grayson, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Assaults on frontline emergency service workers who work tirelessly to serve and protect the public are completely and utterly unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”
“Our priority is to keep people safe, and it is appalling they were faced with violence whilst they were attending reports of sexual assault and harassment, which is something we take extremely seriously.
"We have repeatedly stressed that this is not just part of the job and assaults on emergency workers are treated very seriously by the courts.
“We continue to investigate this incident and we would now urge anyone who witnessed the incident, or has any mobile phone footage or further information, to get in touch with us on 101, quoting incident 17 of 10 October 2021.”
Three men, aged 27, 31 and 54-years-old, were arrested in connection with the assault.
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