Two female police officers have been assaulted in three days.

The incidents take the total number of assaults on Manx Constabulary officers to 10 in just the last month.

Chief Constable Gary Roberts branded the incidents as ’simply not acceptable’.

He tweeted on Tuesday this week: ’Female officer assaulted overnight - she’s OK - but that’s the second such assault on a female officer in three days. We’ve now had 10 assaults in the last month. Simply not acceptable.’

In the latest incidents, a teenage offender spat in the face of a female officer, who was arresting him on suspicion of burglary. This case is going through the youth justice process.

A second female officer was elbowed in the stomach by a man in his 20s after she had stopped him for cycling on a pavement and without lights. A suspect has been charged.

A male officer was kicked twice in the chest and once in the jaw by a male offender in his 20s when being arrested for a drunkenness offence. Charges have followed.

Mr Roberts told the Manx Independent: ’No one should come to work and face the risk of being assaulted.

’It is not part of the job, even for police officers.’

He added: ’We often have a difficult job to do and all right minded people will condemn those who offer violence to officers.

’Assaults against police officers in the Isle of Man are generally infrequent, but in recent weeks we have seen an increase in such cases.

’This simply will not be tolerated and those who choose to kick or hit young officers or spit in their faces will go to court.

’Thankfully, courts here take a robust and rigorous approach in such cases.’