. >> polly lynch. >> thank you, mr. speaker. police last week, four officers were assaulted in a single 24-hour period. an assault on a police officer is an assault on society. how can we protect front-line officers and when will she reduce the need for -- starving the number of officers on our streets. pm may: can i send our best wishes to those people who were assaulted in her constituency last week. it is important that we recognize when peace officers go for manyty and indeed off-duty, they sometimes find themselves intervening in situations where they find themselves on the receiving end of assaults and violence against them as they are going forward in the mind of duty where others are not and we recognize that. that's in the line -- in the others arey, where not, and we recognize that. we issued provisional figures. we are improving those figures this year. sentencing guidelines allow for an assault on a police officer to be taken as an aggravating factor into account, but also new developments like the body-worn videos p