The officers gave chase and Monzo lunged at a female constable, who received “horrifically serious injuries," police Commissioner Mark Rowley told LBC Radio.
Rowley acknowledged that the officer nearly lost a hand and said surgeons spent hours “basically putting her arm back together."
The woman officer's partner also suffered serious arm and hand injuries in the confrontation.
Rowley, who leads the Metropolitan Police Service, applauded his officers for running toward danger. He said they arrived 12 minutes after receiving the first call and the suspect was detained 10 minutes later
12 minutes is slow and even then they turned up massively unprepared.
The UK police are a joke, from another article:
12 minutes is slow and even then they turned up massively unprepared.
It really makes you wonder how much damage could have been averted if the cliched "good guy with a gun" had actually been present.