Met Police officer jailed for assaulting man in hospital bed, watchdog says A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 12 weeks after assaulting a man who was handcuffed to a hospital bed, the police watchdog has said.
The police watchdog said the charge related to an incident on June 9 2024 when Pc Solanki and another officer went to a hospital in east London hospital to attend to a man who had been admitted for a mental health assessment.
The IOPC said that while he continued to hold his arm around the man’s neck, Pc Solanki said: “Put your arm on the cuff, or I’m going to choke you out” and “I swear to god, I will f****** choke you out”.
In this incident, Pc Solanki used unlawful force when he put his arm around a man’s neck while he was handcuffed to a hospital bed.
Body-worn video footage presented at court showed Pc Solanki restraining the man and putting his right arm around his neck with his left hand holding his right, in a choke-hold position.
