Man arrested after Pc critically injured

PC Ged Walker was dragged along the road

A man has been arrested after a police officer was critically injured trying to stop a suspected car thief.

PC Ged Walker, 42, was dragged along a road in Nottingham on Tuesday.

He had grabbed hold of a taxi in the belief that a suspect was inside but lost his grip.

Nottinghamshire chief constable Steve Green, who has been to visit PC Walker in hospital, said a 30-strong inquiry team had arrested a suspect on Wednesday.

The officer remains gravely ill

Steve Green, chief constable

"This lunchtime, a local man was arrested and is being detained as a suspect," said Mr Green.

"The officer remains gravely ill in the Queen's Medical Centre, and our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family at this time."

PC Walker, who is a police dog handler, is married with a 12-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter.

His dog, Kai, a German shepherd, was with him at the scene on Tuesday when he received his injuries.

Friend and colleague, superintendent Philip Oddie, said he had known Pc Walker since they joined the force together in 1978.

He is an all-round nice man, known by people across the force

Philip Oddie, friend and colleague

"He is one of the most positive officers I have ever had the pleasure to work with.

"Myself, all of his friends and his colleagues are devastated by his injuries, but that is only a fraction of what his family will be feeling.

"He is very close to his children and to his wife, and was an all-round nice man, known by people across the force."

PC Walker was one of a number of officers alerted when a stolen vehicle was spotted in Bulwell, Nottingham, at about 1300 GMT on Tuesday.

A woman and a girl were arrested at the scene but a man was followed across a golf course and through a pensioner's home.

The suspect is then believed to have got into the taxi which PC Walker grabbed hold of.