Montreal police officer stabbed while trying to detain man near daycare
CTV
A Montreal police (SPVM) officer was sent to hospital with serious injuries Wednesday after he was stabbed while attempting to detain a suspect. Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher arrived at the scene and told reporters the incident happened during an intervention.
A Montreal police (SPVM) officer was sent to hospital with serious injuries Wednesday after he was stabbed while attempting to detain a suspect.
The officer, who has served with the force for two years and regularly works in the city's Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood, is expected to survive.
Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher arrived at the scene and told reporters the incident happened during an intervention.
Dagher said the man had been "hanging around" a daycare and taking pictures. Police first approached the 35-year-old man on Tuesday, but he fled the scene. On Wednesday, police saw him again.
"Today, my police officers came back just to make sure that everything was secure. Finally, they met him, they tried to talk to him [but] he ran away. My police officers tried to talk to him by putting his hand on him. Then, [the man] stabbed him with a knife on the left side of his body," the police chief said.
The officer is undergoing surgery and is "not in danger," Dagher added. The officer's partner, a five-year veteran of the SPVM, finally arrested the suspect and was treated for shock.
Dagher said the suspect needed psychological care, "but it wasn't done in time, so our police officer suffered the consequences."
