Two people have been charged after police were allegedly assaulted during a COVID-19 compliance check in Sydney\u2019s west.
\nAbout midnight (Thursday 7 January 2021), officers from Auburn Police Area Command attended a home on Amy Street, Regents Park, to conduct a compliance check on a 39-year-old man.
\nOn arrival, it\u2019s alleged the man verbally abused police before threatening them.
\nAdditional police attended and the man was arrested after allegedly resisting five officers.
\nDuring the incident, a 20-year-old woman, known to the man, allegedly hindered police and assaulted a male senior constable.
\nThey were both arrested and taken to Auburn Police Station where the man was charged with intimidate police officer in execution of duty without actual bodily harm and resist of hinder police officer in the execution of duty.
\nThe woman was charged with two counts of assault police officer in execution of duty without actual bodily harm.
\nThey have both been refused bail to appear at Parramatta Local Court today (Thursday 7 January 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two people have been charged after police were allegedly assaulted during a COVID-19 compliance check in Sydney\u2019s west. About midnight (Thursday 7 January 2021), officers from Auburn Police Area Command attended a home on Amy Street, Regents Park, to conduct a compliance check on a 39-year-old man. On arrival, it\u2019s alleged the man verbally abused … Continue reading “Police allegedly assaulted, intimidated during COVID-19 compliance check”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}