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| Officer stabbed in police station | Officer stabbed in police station |
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| A 15-year-old boy is being held by police after a constable was stabbed at a north London police station. | |
| The male police constable was stabbed behind the front counter of Wood Green Police Station, in Wood Green, at about 0315 GMT on Sunday. | The male police constable was stabbed behind the front counter of Wood Green Police Station, in Wood Green, at about 0315 GMT on Sunday. |
| He was taken to a north London hospital where he is in a stable condition. | He was taken to a north London hospital where he is in a stable condition. |
| A Metropolitan Police spokesman said dog units and helicopters searched for the suspect and a youth was arrested on Wood Green High Road at about 0445 BST. | |
| The arrested man is in custody at a north London police station. | The arrested man is in custody at a north London police station. |
| 'Shiny complexion' | |
| A police spokesman said a man jumped over the front counter of the police station before stabbing the officer once in the abdomen. He then fled. | |
| Police are appealing for witnesses and information and are keen to speak to a black man with "a shiny complexion" and a goatee beard who was spotted standing under a tree opposite the police station just before the attack. | |
| They also want to trace a white man who came into the station to enquire about a family member five minutes before the stabbing. | |
| They believe he might have seen the suspect entering or leaving the building. |