A man was taken to hospital after a crash in the early hours of the morning in Oldham.
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Police have hit out after a 'mindless' thug smashed a patrol car window while officers were helping an elderly man injured in a fall. The vandalism took place at Empress Court in Old Trafford on Friday night.
It meant the car had to be taken off patrol and prevented the officer from attending other incidents.
In message on Facebook Trafford police expressed their anger at the incident. It read: "When they handed the care of the male to our colleagues from the ambulance service, returning to their car they discovered some kind soul had smashed the windscreen.
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"This prevented the officers attending other incidents where members of the public also needed their help until the vehicle was recovered. This mindless criminal damage stop us helping victims of domestic violence, prevents us from searching for missing children or any of the hundreds of incidents involving the most vulnerable people in our community who need our help.
"I hope one day, if your loved one needs our help having collapsed, someone else hasn’t done something similar and we can’t respond as we should."
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