Watch: The Arrest That Got Hero Police Officer Sacked for “Lack of Respect” as he Tackled Knife-Wielding Teenager
Video footage of an award-winning police officer arresting a knife-carrying teenager has been released after the officer was sacked for showing a “lack of respect” during the arrest, sparking a public outcry. The Mail has more.
The shocking footage shows how PC Lorne Castle grabbed the 15 year-old boy, who was suspected of assault, pushed him into a wall before slamming him into the ground and proceeded to place his hand over the youth’s face while shouting threats and curse words.
During the commotion a Stanley-type knife fell out of the teenager’s waistband.
PC Castle, 46, was dismissed from Dorset Police over the Bournemouth arrest, sparking a wave of criticism as it emerged the teen was suspected of assaulting two people including an elderly gentlemen.
Dorset Police has now released the full bodycam footage from PC Castle’s partner on the stop, allowing the public to judge for themselves.
Following the arrest PC Castle’s colleagues reported concerns about his conduct to senior officers, prompting a 16-month investigation and gross misconduct proceedings.
A misconduct panel last week found PC Castle made the boy feel “frightened and intimidated” and showed him a “lack of courtesy and respect” during the arrest in January last year.
The officer admitted that he “lost control” during the arrest and tearfully apologised for his “out of character” actions at a police disciplinary hearing.
The panel, led by Wiltshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Deborah Smith, found him guilty of gross misconduct.
They said he failed to act with self-control, did not treat the boy with courtesy or respect and that his “shouting, swearing, finger pointing, taking hold of the boy’s face suggested use of leg restraints was not necessary, reasonable or proportionate”.
It was alleged the officer also grabbed the boy’s throat but this was not proven.
PC Castle was dismissed without notice and barred from serving again. …
On the day of the arrest, the panel heard that the boy was suspected of assaulting an elderly man while riding an e-scooter before getting embroiled in a fracas with another youth outside McDonalds.
PC Castle, who has twice won a national bravery award including one for saving an elderly woman from drowning in a swollen river in 2023, spotted the suspect walking up Richmond Hill in Bournemouth before the stop.
His colleague attempted to step in to calm the situation several times but was all but ignored by PC Castle, video footage shows.
Giving evidence, PC Castle said he became “overwhelmed and scared” when the boy resisted as his mind flashed back to his arrest of a county lines drug dealer 18 months earlier which led him fearing for his life.
Breached the scoundrel’s human rights, no doubt. Even a debasing confession of guilt couldn’t save him. He pleaded with his betters for mercy but they terminated him anyway.
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Looks a lot like me getting arrested after having declared (to a night club door woman) that I had accidentally forgotten to take my pocket knife out of my pocket and would thus not try to enter the club (The Walkabout in Reading) but first bring it home instead. But as I didn’t assault anyone, that’s obviously a completely different situation and the violence was very certainly much more justified.
So the scummy chav felt ”frightened and intimidated”? What, like how his two victims felt that he’d earlier assaulted? FFS. Since when did dealing with these dirtbags with ”courtesy or respect” have any effect whatsoever? You give them a dose of their own medicine because that’s the level on which they operate. This is an excerpt of ex-cop Norman Brennan’s analysis of this case, and I’m very confident this guy wouldn’t have been sacked had he not been white. Seriously, why would anyone want to be a police officer nowadays? ”It wasn’t the officers at the scene that complained about PC Castle but another shift who took on the job & viewed the BWC (Body warn Camera) It was then passed to a SGT & then an INSP who I’m informed had no real issue; it was passed to PSD Professional Standard Dept again No Real Issue; However a SUPT INSISTED that this matter be escalated to a Disciplinary investigation & wouldn’t move on his Insistence & thereafter folks the rest as they say is history; PC Castle admitted he swore he admitted he used force he even pleaded Guilty at his hearing to misconduct but Not GROSS MISCONDUCT but… Read more »
Strange how grotesque violence by plod can apparently be deployed against “faaar riiight” protestors and it is not just condoned but encouraged by senior plod and Kneel’s mob. I feel sorry for this copper because no leniency has been shown even though this bugger was carrying.
Grunt coppers need to wake up. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
That’s one less copper that will go towards trouble. We are now less protected.
Much more than one. He’s been dismissed but his colleagues have effectively been told not to tackle problem people.
So PC Castle made the little sh!t feel “frightened and intimidated” and showed him a “lack of courtesy and respect” did he? Good for him.
Absolutely unbelievable, isn’t it? Perhaps his approach should have been: “I wonder if you’d be so good to hand over that knife you’re carrying – if that’s quite all right with you, of course. And I’d be awfully grateful if you wouldn’t use it to stab me either. Is that OK? Thank you very much indeed.”
1) This is not “shocking footage” as the Daily Mail claims. WELL DONE TO THE OFFICERS INVOLVED, because the suspect was RESISTING ARREST, and the police have the right to use any means necessary to subdue a suspect who is RESISTING ARREST. “Any person who resists or wilfully obstructs a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, or to both.” This offence is triable summarily and carries a maximum penalty of one months’ imprisonment and/or a fine at level 3 (currently £1,000).” 2) All of the suspect’s hysterical shrieking was FAKE, a deliberate attempt to play the victim aimed at the officer’s video camera recording, as he showed clearly when he suddenly stopped screaming and started insisting on “his rights”. 3) It’s outrageously unjust to expect police officers not to get angry, swear, shout, threaten, intimidate, disrespect or use violence against any suspect RESISTING ARREST, because the police officers’ duty is to SUBDUE THE SUSPECT in… Read more »
If I hadn’t done anything and a policeman came in an aggressive way to arrest me, I’m not 100% sure I wouldn’t instinctively try to resist arrest.
I don’t know, resisting arrest seems like a very human reaction especially if you aren’t afraid to confront authority.
My perspective of this video depends entirely on whether the boy is a nasty piece of work or a kid that’s just been a bit mischievous. If it’s the latter, then the whole thing seems way over the top.
Read the X post.
If I hadn’t done anything and a policeman came in an aggressive way to arrest me, I’m not 100% sure I wouldn’t instinctively try to resist arrest.
If the police is coming for you, you’ll generally be lucky if you don’t get hurt, possibly seriously, when not trying to resist. These people have been trained for such situations, they’re under orders that – for their own safety – no suspect must even be given a chance to resist and they always show up in groups and can get reinforcements quickly.
Standard George Floyd playbook: scream and cry, say you’ve no idea what is happening, all the while resisting.
Yes, they apparently got this girlie Scream & Cry technique from Muslim Terrorists who used it so often when captured by Allied troops in the Afghan & Iraq wars, as reported by Allied troops forced into that conflict.
The Muslims would start to Scream & Cry before anyone even laid a hand on them.
A cultural tradition, it seems.
Apologies as this is slightly off topic but vaguely related, but wanted to report the BBC’s answer to my complaint about the report of the Connolly appeal on their website: “Some people contacted us as they were concerned about our reporting. In particular with regards to this line: “Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, was jailed for 31 months in October after calling for ‘mass deportation now’ and urging her followers on X to ‘set fire’ to hotels housing asylum seekers”. Some people told us that they believe Mrs Connolly did not ‘urge’ and rather that the tweet was passive and she was expressing indifference. The three appeal court judges state (paragraph 56) in their ruling: “…the words of the tweet are on their face an incitement to serious violence.” Therefore we believe that in saying urging we have fairly reflected the ruling of the appeal court judges. Some readers also said that we should have quoted the whole tweet (which contains swearing) in our article. The BBC News style guide says: “We do not adopt the convention of using asterisks. If possible, omit the offending term from a direct quote or use indirect speech.” We have quoted from the tweet to… Read more »
My refusal to be duped into a license is my two-fingered response to them. Everybody must follow.
That’s the exact same reply I got. It’s not only that they misreport the verdict of the appeal judges about something as actual action of the person who was appealing, they also shortened the quote to make it look in this way.
This is clearly Hofberichterstattung¹ by the BBC.
¹ Literal meaning of the noun is authorized news from the court of the crown disseminated verbatim by reporters authorized to do so. Mock journalism quoting official sources while hiding that this was done.
100%
Getting a generic response is something that has happened to me before – I guess wehn lots of people complain about the same thing they concoct a summative “defence” of the indefensible
Very off-topic. Geert Wilders has been threatening this for some time as he’s been vocal about his dissatisfaction with the Dutch asylum policies not being strict enough, so the inevitable has happened;
”Prime Minister Dick Schoof on Tuesday announced the collapse of his cabinet during a press conference, blaming the fall on the withdrawal of the Party for Freedom (PVV) from the governing coalition. He said the PVV’s exit had stripped the coalition of majority support in the House of Representatives, leaving no choice but to dissolve the government.
Schoof confirmed that he would immediately offer the resignation of all PVV ministers to King Willem-Alexander. Ministers from the remaining parties—the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), New Social Contract (NSC), and Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB)—will remain in office in a caretaker capacity.”
https://nltimes.nl/2025/06/03/dutch-pm-coalition-collapse-unnecessary-irresponsible-cabinet-resign
“I have signed for the strictest asylum policy, not for the downfall of the Netherlands. This is where our responsibility ends,” he added.
The PVV leader suggested his proposals were still being resisted by both the VVD and NSC following crisis talks on Monday evening, forewarning the Dutch press after the meeting that things were “not looking good.”
https://rmx.news/article/dutch-coalition-collapses-as-wilders-pvv-withdraws-over-asylum-policy/
To be honest, I don’t know what to think without more information.
It is being strongly suggested that the boy was a nasty piece of work and an antisocial menace, but is that known for a fact or assumed?
I’m definitely not in the camp of people who assume the police are nice guys. I’m sure many are decent people who want to do their jobs well and properly. But I also know for a fact that there are plenty of police out there who are thugs, bullies and worse.
Put it this way, the police are basically civil servants. My impression of civil servants is that they’re self-serving, very much prone to looking out for themselves, their interests and their own personal and collective agendas and quite happy to use the power given to them by the state to their full extent and beyond if possible. Not sure why police would be any different.
We are SO screwed.
Frightened and intimidated isn’t that a necessary part of trying to disable a resisting criminal?
I hope the next victim stabbed by a criminal is reassured that the police will treat the stabber with dignity and respect. Hope you can sleep better at night knowing this.
Looks to me like the arrest of some scumbag trying to plead his innocence after assaulting an old man. What respect did the teenager give to the old man? Presumably we’re even less safe on the streets now as police officers will be afraid to protect members of the public from these little sh1tes. Oh unless of course they are far right then that’s okay. Pathetic.
25 or so years ago, Bournemouth was a genteel seaside town. Now it’s been incredibly “enriched” and in many areas is a violent and increasingly run-down dump.
The teenage scum-bag didn’t DESERVE respect and, since he was carrying a blade (presumably with the intention of using it at some point) the arrest was fortuitous in that it occurred before he stabbed someone.
The Officer should have kept his temper but faced with a piece of scum like that, he did what he thought was necessary to get him under control. He possibly should have had some disciplinary action but taking an experienced Copper off the streets for over-reacting on one occasion does not make the streets safer for the law-abiding.
Remember the version of “courtesy or respect” shown to that 92yr old confused, one-legged man in a nursing home who was brandishing a butter knife from his seated position? Those two officers were found not guilty of the charges, though I don’t know if they kept their jobs or not. If they are still serving then that makes even more of a mockery of what’s happened to PC Castle, who apprehended a known-violent, able-bodied, knife-carrying little scally. I wonder what would’ve happened had Castle tasered the scrote. Would it have been the same outcome or would that have been deemed ‘appropriate use of force’, as with the 92yr old disabled man?
I came here to mention that story, it’s the obvious comparison. I couldn’t remember what happened to the officers involved but I’m sure it all provoked less of an outcry than this, bizarrely.
No, the police officer was NOT “overreacting”, and should NOT have had ANY disciplinary action for doing his job to SUBDUE A SUSPECT who had just attacked two people and was RESISTING ARREST.
Sack ’em all, and replace them with women. Can’t have all this toxic masculinity in the Police Force.
‘Right wing’ political views do not demand one is a knee-jerk authoritarian bigot (who prejudicially presumes guilt) but I am getting the strong impression, from reading most of these comments, that’s the syndrome here. And, much the same, the article too.
I consider the officer acted like a raving mad man and clearly so did his colleagues.
See: The Nine Principles of Policing
6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
https://eubrainwashing.blogspot.com/2011/06/nine-principles-of-policing.html
Wimp.
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For my sins I watched two Cop Shows on Channel 5 on Monday evening. They’re traffic police dealing with various traffic offenders…if PC Castle was dismissed over his ‘intimidating arrest’ the the whole of Notts/Derby/West & South Yorkshire traffic officers should be watching their backs as several police cars surround the offender and drag them out of their cars. What a disgraceful way to treat a proven brave Police Officer. He should be reinstated at once.
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