Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN charged with slapping a female police officer on the arm said he did so because he needed to get outside and vomit. The warehouse supervisor's behaviour this week cost him a hefty fine, after James Allan Bradley Ross pleaded guilty to charges of serious assault on a police officer and obstructing police. Ipswich Magistrates Court heard police had been called to an Ipswich home on March 6 in relation to an earlier incident. Prosecutor Senior Constable Andrew Smith said officers went to a house at Churchill just before 8pm and found a resident bleeding on the face and with blood on the ground.