PC Connolly PC Connolly ' s first dealing with a resident of Coronation Street , Weatherfield was with Tyrone Dobbs when Molly went into labour with Jack in September 2010 . Out on a breakdown call , Tyrone rushed home only to find himself stuck in a one - way road where a van driver was unloading goods for a cattery . A frantic Tyrone tried to explain the situation to the driver but he took an extremely awkward view and refused to move the van before he had finished his delivery . Tyrone even started to reluctantly help him with his boxes before a rather slapstick fight ensued between the two men . Tyrone was about the drive off the blocking van but the driver distracted him by throwing the breakdown truck ’ s keys into the bushes of a neighbouring garden and driving off himself while Tyrone tried to retrieve them . A queue of horning - blasting cars built up as Tyrone tried another tack of using his old skills to hotwire the truck . A police car appeared with two officers . Connolly did a check on the vehicle details and then started to listen to Tyrone ’ s garbled story as to why he was in such a rush . They believed the tale and , siren on , rush him home where he was just in time to witness the birth of his son . The following January , Connolly , together with a colleague , conducted door - to - door enquires after Tracy Barlow had been found unconscious and with head wounds in the backyard of 1 Coronation Street . While in April , as he was conducting visits to the local businesses , he called into Barlow ' s Bookies to inform the staff about the growing problem of counterfeit bank notes being passed . In May 2012 he called at 11 Coronation Street when Lesley Kershaw reported an assault on herself . She was suffering from Alzheimer ' s disease and was being looked after by husband Paul Kershaw and Eileen Grimshaw who he had started a relationship with , accepting the finality of his wife ' s condition . Lesley was growing increasingly difficult to handle and prone to outbursts of anger . She ran away from her care home and when Paul tried to put her back into his car to take her back she fell and sprained her wrist . In her confusion , she blamed Eileen for the injury and rang the police . Connolly was told by Eileen that Matt Carter had treated her and Paul apologised for what was in effect a hoax call but Connolly told him that , subject to an interview with Matt , he was satisfied that there was no case to answer . Connolly ' s next visit was in March 2014 when 8 Coronation Street was robbed by Michael Rodwell . Connolly and PC Carson interviewed Gail McIntyre and Kylie Platt , giving them a leaflet and offering to pass on their details to victim support . Connolly and PC Carson were once again paired up and accompanied social worker Selina Rowley when they visited No . 13 in May 2014 following the disappearance of Ben Heath from his foster parents ' home . Sister Maddie and her partner Sophie Webster subsequently hid out with Ben inside Mary Taylor ' s motor home , but Maddie eventually agreed to let Ben leave when he said that he wanted to return home and move with the family to Devon . The police officers saw Ben and arrested Maddie and Sophie , however the pair were eventually released without charge . Connolly ' s next incident was in August 2015 when drug - dealing villain Callum Logan had Jason Grimshaw beaten up by two thugs in the ginnel for coming between himself and his dealings with the Platt family . As they ran off , they bumped into Jason ' s father Tony Stewart and he was able to give a brief description of the men to Connolly . In May 2016 , Connolly and his colleague PC Burke were involved in a drugs raid at 28 Grayling Street as Izzy Armstrong was in the process of buying drugs from a dealer called Marc Randall . Connolly chased Marc from the property as Burke detained Izzy . While in August of the same year , he and a female colleague arrived at 2a Coronation Street having been called by Caz Hammond following a break - in at the property and a head injury sustained by resident Maria Connor . As PC Connolly took a statement , a visibly upset Maria explained that she ' d discovered the front door to her flat open when she returned from shopping and instinctively knew something was wrong . She went on to tell the officers that the Burglar was initially hiding , but when she turned around , she noticed he had a bar in his hand and feared that he was going to kill her . In January 2017 , he found Simon Barlow wandering the streets after a friend ' s party held at the Trafford Centre . His mobile phone had packed up and and he was unable to contact anyone to pick him up . Connolly returned Simon to his frantic family with the advice that he make sure his phone was fully charged before he went out in future . List of appearances . 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017