The Age · Politics / Victoria

Police, firefighters join call for review of assault loophole

· By Rachel Eddie, Grant McArthur
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Police and firefighters’ unions have joined calls to urgently review mandatory sentences for assaulting emergency service workers, after a paramedic was hospitalised but fell through gaps in the law because she was not treating a patient at the time she was attacked.

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