Hero cop tackles axe-wielding man
Published: December 5, 2007
AN off-duty police officer tackled an axe-wielding man in Palmyra yesterday morning.
The officer, Travis Petersen, 29, who was visiting from Carnarvon, was waiting for his father in the car park of a Canning Highway medical practice about 11.20am when he spotted the man acting suspiciously.
Police said the man approached a 45-year-old man as he parked his car, threatened him with a long handled axe and demanded his vehicle.
Constable Petersen tackled the man, forced him to the ground and held him until members of the public could help.
The officer’s 65-year-old father, who was receiving medical attention in the clinic and recently had an operation, also helped and was scratched and bruised in the tussle.
The alleged offender was arrested by other officers and charged over an armed robbery at the Leopold Hotel an hour earlier in which staff at the drive-through bottle shop were threatened with a baseball bat.
Officers attending the scene praised the off-duty officer’s “selfless and brave efforts, together with his quick thinking”.
A 36-year-old Murdoch man was charged with armed robbery, assault with intent to rob, and common assault. He appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court today and was detained in custody
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