2025 POLICE BRAVERY AWARDS
PC Samantha Anderson and PC Sally Nairn from Norfolk police
opened the door and directed the officers to the man’s bedroom. The bedroom was locked, so they knocked on the door and asked if he was safe and well. They explained calmly he needed to open the door so they could see him and check on his welfare. Meanwhile, several members of the man’s family had gathered on the landing. The man turned hostile and shouting and swearing at the officers, telling them to leave the house.
There was a moment of silence and then the sound of a firearm being racked. The bedroom door opened, and the man stood in the doorway with what looked like a gun in his hand. PC A followed PC McDowall and they both tackled the man
onto a bed. PC McDowall grabbed the firearm out of the man’s hand and there was a struggle, but they eventually managed to handcuff and arrest him.
The gun was seized, and on closer inspection it was found to be an air pistol. The man was taken into custody, but the CPS decided to discontinue the case.
NORFOLK On 26 June 2024 Norfolk Constabulary beat managers PC Samantha Anderson and PC Sally Nairn (pictured above) responded to reports of a person in crisis on the top of a multi- story carpark in Norwich. A member of the public reported the woman was on the edge of an outbuilding on the uppermost floor and they were concerned she could jump. It was impossible to engage with the woman from where she was positioned above them, and while the fire service had reached her and made every effort to talk her down, they could not deescalate the situation. PC Anderson climbed to join them and put herself between the female and the edge without being tethered to anything, preventing the female harming herself. PC Nairn joined her to assist, also not tethered and falling being a real risk for both of them. They remained there, constantly reassuring the vulnerable
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woman for an hour while other emergency service colleagues ensured they could bring her down safely to the ground, which they successfully did.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
PC Callum Simpson and PC Anna O’Donoghue dragged a driver from a burning vehicle, moments before it exploded. The duo were double crewed in December 2023, when they came across a vehicle that had been involved with a high-speed collision with a fuel pump on the A45 Westbound in Wellingborough. When the officers arrived at the scene, the vehicle involved was on fire and the passenger from the vehicle was stood next to the car. The passenger was injured but was trying to remove the driver from the vehicle who was trapped and also injured. Both officers ran towards the burning vehicle and managed to
drag the driver out of the vehicle and to a place of safety just in time, as flames soon engulfed the vehicle resulting in a series of
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