If this had happened in the U.S. where police officers are armed things probably would have turned out different.  But instead it was in the "gun free paradise" of London England:

LONDON (Reuters) - A female trainee police officer is seriously ill in hospital on Tuesday after being shot as she and a colleague tried to apprehend a suspected burglar.

Police said the incident occurred shortly before midnight when two officers, an experienced male officer and the 25-year-old female probation officer, were called to a burglary in the Lenton area of Nottingham and tried to stop a man nearby.

"The suspect produced a firearm and shot one of the officers," a Nottinghamshire police spokeswoman said, adding the victim had not yet been named.

The wounded officer, who was wearing body armour, has undergone emergency surgery for a gunshot injury and is in intensive care in a serious condition.

No one has been arrested.