Warwickshire police have released footage of the moment one of their officers was knocked against a bollard by a drug dealer during an undercover operation. 24-year-old Matthew Crofts has been sentenced to 54 months in prison over the incident in March last year in which he reversed his car to escape from police. The undercover officers had been trying to catch Crofts during a drug deal when one member of the police got caught in the door of Crofts' vehicle when he tried to escape.

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