Porthmadog: Probe after police officer filmed punching suspect

Footage circulating online appears to amusement a constabulary serviceman punching a antheral 9 times portion restraining him connected the floor.

The incidental occurred during the apprehension of a man, 34, connected Pensyflog successful Porthmadog, Gwynedd, northbound westbound Wales, connected Wednesday.

In the footage, a antheral serviceman is seen with his limb astir the man's cervix appearing to punch him successful the face.

North Wales Police said the incidental was being "fully investigated".

The video appears to amusement the fishy taken to the crushed by a antheral and pistillate serviceman aft a little altercation.

Separate footage shows the antheral being led to a constabulary conveyance with a swollen and bruised face.

He was past taken to infirmary and assessed by aesculapian unit earlier being transferred into constabulary custody, said the force.

The incidental happened connected Pensyflog, a thoroughfare successful the coastal municipality of Porthmadog.

Nia Jeffreys, Gwynedd councillor for the area, said: "The full assemblage is shocked to archer the information and it's truly shaken our religion and spot successful the constabulary present successful northbound Wales.

"Trust is decidedly shaken. Nobody expects to spot 1 constabulary serviceman punching a antheral respective times whilst helium is already connected the floor, it's precise serious.

"This benignant of behaviour by 1 constabulary serviceman can't beryllium tolerated it's precise hard to justify."

Ms Jeffreys added that she, on with the section MP and MS, person written to the main constable to find the "facts of this situation".

Police and Crime Commissioner for northbound Wales, Andy Dunbobbin, described the footage arsenic "concerning" and said helium was taking it "very seriously".

"I discussed this incidental with the main constable this greeting and she has confirmed the substance is rightly being investigated by North Wales Police," helium said.

"I instrumentality specified incidents precise earnestly and volition enactment with the constabulary and different bodies to recognize the circumstances down the footage," helium added.

A North Wales Police spokesperson said: "We are alert of videos circulating connected societal media.

"This substance is presently being afloat investigated by North Wales Police and further updates volition beryllium issued successful owed course."

A spokesperson for the Independent Office for Police Conduct said: "We became alert this greeting (Thursday) of a video shared connected societal media showing an incidental successful Porthmadog involving a constabulary officer.

"We person present received a referral from North Wales Police which is being assessed to find what enactment whitethorn beryllium needed by the IOPC."