If you injure emergency workers, you can expect harsh new punishments

By Kaitlyn Offer and Georgie Moore
Updated May 22 2018 - 7:56am, first published 7:47am
If you injure emergency workers, you can expect harsh new punishments
If you injure emergency workers, you can expect harsh new punishments

Injuring a police officer, paramedic or firefighter will be treated the same as rape and murder, under new laws to be introduced into the Victorian parliament.

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