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The young patrolman of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, Andrés Orduz, he suffered second-degree burns on his limbs and part of his body after a pot of boiling water fell on him.
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This officer put his body to safeguard the integrity of a three-year-old girl who was in the kitchen taking refuge from an intra-family quarrel that broke out in a house in the El Codito neighborhood of the town of Usaquén on the night of this Monday, November 9.
Around 8 o’clock at night, this 23-year-old policeman arrived, together with his partner, Andrés Rodríguez, to attend an episode of domestic violence.
In the home, the minor’s parents were involved in a fight with physical attacks and had also consumed alcohol.
While a uniformed man tried to mediate the situation, the patrolman Orduz noticed that the minor had run to the kitchen. “That’s when I realized that a girl was getting on the stove where there was a fire lit with a pot of boiling water”, the patrolman said.
That’s when I realized that a girl was getting on the stove where there was a fire lit with a pot of boiling water
The next thing his partner heard was ‘the girl is well?’, The patrolman asked, more concerned for the minor than for his own integrity, Rodríguez said.
Although the minor leaned on the pot, destabilizing it, the patrolman pounced on the girl and He removed it from the place before the liquid fell on his body.
With serious burns on his hands, chest and legs, he continued with the police task. Moments later, the child’s mother put a cream on her, as the wounds were obvious.
“I sat the girl in the living room, and I told my partner that I had burned, and we took that case quickly to go to the Hospital, “Orduz continued.
Around 8:30 at night, he was referred from the emergency room to the police hospital. After two hours of intervention, he was discharged, although with four days of disability, so that you can continue your recovery process in your home.
“When I got to the hospital I called my mother, who was visiting the city, and I hadn’t seen her for almost two years. She was concerned, but understood that the life of a minor comes first“, mentioned this Police.
The patrolman mentioned to this newspaper that this type of act, which often goes unnoticed, occur often in the industry you monitor, especially on weekends, when cases of domestic violence are involved, due to excess alcohol consumption.
However, he said his reaction it was totally instinctive and human, and he hopes that it will help citizens trust more in the police force, while they continue to carry out their work.
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