Detective tackles man who made inappropriate comments to teenage girl and was running from father

Incredible moment a senior detective tackles a man who ‘made inappropriate comments to a teenage girl’ and was running away from her furious father

  • Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards was at a conference in Queensland
  • He stopped to tackle a man who was being chased by furious father Kevin Scells
  • The man had allegedly made inappropriate comments to the man’s daughter, 19 
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A top police officer stopped a press conference to put a huge hit on man who had allegedly made an inappropriate comment about a man’s daughter.

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards was speaking to reporters outside the Maroochydore Police Station on the Sunshine Coast when a man ran past him.

The man was being chased by furious father Kevin Scells, who was angrily shouting: ‘You better get running, run, run, run!’ 

Without hesitation, Mr Edwards turned around and tackled the man to the ground.  

‘He just asked me if I was single, saying that I was beautiful and he was going to buy me stuff’; the teenage girl, Charlotte Scells 

The father, Kevin Scells, claimed the man was saying inappropriate things to his 19-year-old daughter Charlotte.  

‘I was just sitting in the car and this man’s said a few inappropriate things to my daughter and I’ve just reacted by chasing him up the road and it just happened to be you guys were here at the same time,’ Mr Scells told 9News. 

Charlotte claimed the man approached her twice and continued to flirt with her.  

‘He just asked me if I was single, saying that I was beautiful and he was going to buy me stuff. I just told him to go away and I wasn’t interested,’ she said.  

The man pinned on the ground said he did nothing wrong before screaming, ‘Get off me. Help me.’

The 39-year-old man from the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly (pictured in the red jumper) is crash tackled

The 39-year-old man from the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly (pictured in the red jumper) is crash tackled

Officers told the man to calm down before they picked him up and escorted him from the scene. 

Queensland Police told Daily Mail Australia that the man had been charged with public nuisance and unlawful stalking.

Mr Edwards continued with the press conference with a large graze on his head after the impressive tackle. 

‘You never know what (the job) will bring,’ he said, conceding he hadn’t made a dramatic arrest like that in ‘quite a few years’. 

‘Suit was ready for a dry-clean anyway.’ 

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards (pictured) was mid-sentence when a man run past him chased by another man, Kevin Scells, who angrily shouting 'you better get running, run, run, run!'

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards (pictured) was mid-sentence when a man run past him chased by another man, Kevin Scells, who angrily shouting ‘you better get running, run, run, run!’

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