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Liz Shipton pushed the panic button the second she realised the situation had escalated, and within seconds the Station Duty Office was full of police officers who’d streamed out of the rooms behind at the sound of the alarm.
She watched on helplessly as ‘Panic alarm SDO! Panic alarm SDO!’ rang out over the tannoy system at an ear-piercing volume as half a dozen officers tackled John Lucas to the ground and disarmed him. Two officers were attending to DS Knight, one of them attempting to stem the bleeding with his hands whilst another grabbed the police-issue bandages from the pouch on his belt.
‘Lima Alfa one four six. Officer with a stab wound to the neck in SDO. Ambo needed, over.’
‘Get off! Get the f**k off me!’
‘Nick, we’ll need more bandages. It’s not stopping.’
‘Claire, tak
