2024 POLICE BRAVERY AWARDS
PCs Anna Kelsey and Nicola Burn at South Yorkshire Police
With limited information as they entered the property, the officers were met with a distressed person, and the suspect still on scene.
The suspect, 51-year-old man was standing at the top of the
stairs, armed with a knife, and covered in blood. The officers, without hesitation immediately started to negotiate with him, attempting to get him to drop the weapon. He resisted the officers’ request and they deployed Taser. He was arrested, and the murder weapon was recovered, but sadly, once officers had the suspect under control, it was evident that two other individuals on the property had suffered significant injuries and had died. Despite witnessing an unimaginable attack and aftermath, PCs Burn and Kelsey continued to provide exemplary aftercare to tot the suspect, explaining processes and reassuring him following the Taser discharge.
STAFFORDSHIRE PCs Emily Gabbott and Josh Taylor’s rapid response helped save the life of a vulnerable woman who was unconscious in her home. A distressed woman sent a video of a lit BBQ in her own home
to her estranged partner, who quickly called 999. Staffordshire response officers PCs Emily Gabbott and Josh Taylor were the first on the scene. They found the house secure with smoke emanating from open upstairs windows. While fire and ambulance services were en route, along with
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enforcer patrols still nine miles away, the officers conducted a dynamic risk assessment. They knew time was of the essence, so PC Taylor began trying to force the door open using a battering ram, while PC Gabbott asked the concerned onlooking neighbour if she could access the back of the house from their garden.
PC Gabbott went through the neighbour’s house and managed to climb in through a window and quickly ran up the stairs into the smoke-filled bedroom to find the woman laying face down on the floor and unconscious. At this stage PC Taylor had gained access through the front door too. Both PCs tried desperately to wake the women to get her down the stairs and out of the house as she had been breathing in carbon monoxide for quite some time.
The woman remained unresponsive, so PC Taylor took action and moved her down the stairs safely before putting her in the recovery position on the lawn.
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