Kraków: police reveal details of operation as 24-year-old opens fire in Main Square
Polish Police have released a chronology of the intervention following the attack in Kraków's Main Square. Officers confronted the attacker in the third minute from the initial report.
Kraków: detailed police report on operation in Main Square
According to wiadomosci.wp.pl, Polish Police have released a detailed record of actions taken shortly after a 24-year-old attacker opened fire in Kraków's Main Square. The chronology shows that officers intervened and engaged in an exchange of fire in the third minute from the initial report.
The first of nearly 40 reports came to the Regional Emergency Dispatch Centre at exactly 15 seconds past 15:00. In the second minute, city police arrived at the scene. Police officers carried out the intervention in the third minute — at which point an exchange of fire occurred and a pursuit began. In the fourth minute, the first medical rescue teams arrived, and in the sixth minute, the first units of the State Fire Service.
Thirty police crews and 24 units of the State Fire Service, comprising 62 firefighters, were deployed to the operation. Given the nature of the attack, more than a thousand police officers were engaged in the entire incident — both patrol units, uniformed officers securing the area, counter-terrorism units, and officers carrying out investigative procedures at the crime scenes.
"Faced with a real threat, officers rushed into action. They did not calculate the risk. They intervened, putting their own lives at risk to stop the attacker and protect others," Polish Police stated in a statement. Two officers were wounded during the operation.
Source: Google News PL — Crime (pl)