2024 POLICE BRAVERY AWARDS
REGIONAL WINNER 1 Greater
Manchester Police
PS Tim Ansell, PC Marcus Wolstencroft, PS Mark Foster with Kerry McMahon-White, Managing Director of Police Mutual
Neighbourhood Sergeants Marc Foster and Tim Ansell, and PC Marcus Wolstencroft
Sergeants Marc Foster and Tim Ansell and PC Marcus Wolstencroft skilfully detained a deranged knifeman who attempted to murder them.
The trio were in attendance purely as support at the scene of an uneventful failure to stop by a moped. The driver was detained by PC Wolstencroft and his student who had given chase. PS Foster and Ansell were speaking to those involved when a man approached PS Foster from behind and without warning violently attacked with a knife, going straight for his throat. As PS Foster struggled to defend himself, PS Ansell courageously stepped in and came to the defence of his
colleague, and now, once PS Foster had been shoved aside the individual came for PS Ansell, stabbing repeatedly at his neck. At this point PC Wolstencroft stepped in, demonstrating great calmness of mind and expert skill in deploying his Taser. His first deployment failed, but following training he held his nerve and ground and fired again, this time incapacitating the individual and creating an opportunity for him to be restrained and detained. His presence of mind and coolness under pressure meant he was able to follow training procedures and deploy a textbook use of Taser. He even had the composure to apologise to bystanders for swearing in the heat of the incident.
The time this bought PS Foster meant he was able to spring to the aid of his partner PS Ansell who had received a stab
wound to the neck. PS Foster applied, without doubt, lifesaving first aid, plugging the bleed with his bare hands, and reassuring PS Ansell he would be ok whilst waiting for medical support to arrive. The heroic actions of these officers meant a deranged and dangerous individual was removed from the streets, undoubtedly preventing further attacks and injury and potential loss of life. PS Foster received slash wounds to the neck and arms and PS Ansell suffered two open wounds to his neck, one of which was to a vein. PS Foster said: “It was a truly traumatic situation.”
PS Ansell said: “These guys saved lives.” PC Wolstencroft said: “The student with me had put in 15 weeks into the job and on the second to last day someone tried to stab us.”
15 | POLICE | AUGUST | 2024
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