DASHCAM footage showing the desperate search for PC Andrew Harper after his feet were "whipped from under him" by a tow rope has been shown in court.
The 28-year-old Thames Valley Police officer was killed after his feet got tangled in the rope and he was dragged for more than a mile by a Seat Toledo car.
His feet had become tangled in the tow rope after he was trying to apprehend quad bike thieves, he was knocked unconscious.
He died on the scene on the evening of August 15 last year.
Dashcam footage shows PC Andrew Shaw finding his colleague's stab vest during a desperate search.
The Seat driver, Henry Long, 18, and two 17-year-olds have admitted conspiring to steal the quad bike but have denied murder. Long, of Mortimer, Reading, has admitted manslaughter, which his co-accused deny.
Giving evidence in their trial, PC Andrew Shaw said his crew mate got out of their patrol car when they spotted the Seat, which had been towing the quad bike.
He said: "I could see him running in the road. My first thought was he's running after the car trying to get in it. It's what he would have done.
I could see him running in the road. My first thought was he's running after the car trying to get in it. It's what he would have done.
PC Andrew Shaw
"I thought he was trying to get to the open door, drag them out of the car.
"As the car accelerated, PC Harper was standing there and he just appeared to fall back as if his feet had been whipped from under him and that's pretty much the last I saw of him.
"It was so quick you don't even have time to put your hands out to steady yourself."
As he reacted to the fast-paced events, PC Shaw said his biggest concern was that he did not reverse into his colleague.
A call handler had alerted the officers to a burglary in progress near Stanford Dingley in Berkshire, after 11pm on August 15 last year.
She relayed the report of "four masked men outside with weapons, pieces of wood, trying to break into the garage, trying to steal his quad bike".
In the radio transmissions played in court, Pc Harper responded: "We are with it, we are with it."
FRANTIC HUNT
PC Shaw is heard saying: "My colleague Pc Harper got out of the vehicle, ran after the vehicle. I have now lost him."
He is asked to confirm the location, before a communication from another officer, Pc Christopher Bushnell, states: "There is a body in the road, body in the road. Just fell out of the vehicle."
PC Shaw replies: "That's probably PC Harper. I've just found his stab vest in the road."
Jurors were shown video footage from the dashboard of PC Shaw's car as it drove past.
It ended with a view of PC Shaw stopping and rushing over to join an officer standing over PC Harper, who was lying in the road.
PC Shaw told jurors he had been a member of the Thames Valley force's road policing proactive team since 2009, having joined up in 1990.
On August 15 last year, they had been due to finish their shift at 7pm but, due to a surveillance job, were not stood down until 10pm, he said.
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC asked PC Shaw: "This was well beyond your shift ended. Did that make a difference whether you went to the scene?"
The officer replied: "None at all."
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