Ambulance staff attacked during emergency calls over Bank Holiday
Paramedics have reported being attacked while attending emergency call outs over the Bank Holiday weekend.
West Midlands Ambulance Service, which covers Shropshire, said a number of its crew members were left "battered, bruised and in fear of harm" while helping people in need over the three-day period.
Craig Cooke, emergency services director for WMAS, revealed the problem amid news that the number of call-outs made to staff were down in Shropshire on last year's figures.
A total of 704 calls were made in the county over the weekend.
But some attacks on ambulance staff were so severe that police were called out to help, including one incident in Birmingham.
Paramedics also had to call police after a patient and their family began to fight in the rear of an ambulance.
Mr Cooke said the attacks were "appalling" and that staff were just trying to do their jobs.
He said: "We will be doing everything possible to ensure the perpetrators are charged and hope that the courts will deal with these cases in the toughest possible manner.
"It is appalling that members of our staff have been left battered, bruised and in fear of harm while simply trying to carry out their job."
