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Pint-sized female cop praised for catching hulking burglar by rugby tackling him

PC Ali Smith leapt into action when she spotted crook Christopher Arnold running from a house

SWNS by SWNS
2019-02-08 13:37
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A pint-sized female police officer channelled her inner Courtney Lawes to catch a hulking burglar – by rugby tackling him to the ground.

PC Ali Smith charged at 6ft 4ins Christopher Arnold moments after seeing him leap from the first floor window of a house and crash through the conservatory.

PC Smith, who joined West Midlands Police 18 months ago, grabbed onto Arnold but was dragged along the alleyway by the 16 stone thief.

Incredibly, she managed to haul him to the ground and, despite being half his weight, pinned him until colleagues arrived.

The dramatic arrest unfolded as PC Smith attended a break-in at a house in Sutton Coldfield, West Mids., at 5.45pm on December 22.

Arnold, 43, had gold jewellery and a silver serving plate which he had swiped from the 61-year-old woman’s house.

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The prolific thief, of Kingstanding, Birmingham, also had two kinder egg plastic capsules filled with crack cocaine.

Arnold admitted burglary and was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Birmingham Crown Court on January 24.

PC Smith, 25, gave up her career as an English teacher to join the police and completes her training this summer.

She said: “We were in the briefing room preparing to start a 6pm to 4am shift when news of the burglary came across our radios and there was an ‘all out’ call for anyone nearby to attend.

“We blue-lighted to the scene and I made for an alleyway at the back of the house that I suspected the offender might use to escape.

“A tall man in a khaki jacket wearing gardening gloves ran towards me; he tried dodging me but I grabbed him with both arms.

“Due to his size over my petite eight stone he managed to run some distance with me clinging to him.

“We eventually hit the deck; he was struggling and trying to break free but I was able to hold him on the ground before other officers arrived to help out.

“There was no way I was letting go – and it’s great to hear he’s now been jailed and out of harm’s way.”

By Arun Lal

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