Thames Valley Police stock image OUR frontline workers are there to protect and help us but some are still subjected to attacks out on the job. A number of people appeared in court last week charged with assaulting emergency workers in or near Reading. Brendan Ryce, of Blackwater Close in Spencers Wood, will spend eight weeks in jail after beating a police officer in October last year. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to the assault at Reading Magistrates Court on Thursday, April 1. Fahrid Ahad will also spend time behind bars after beating a police officer in Reading on the January 3, 2021. The 33-year-old, of no fixed abode, will be locked up for ten weeks having pleaded guilty to the attack.