BRAVERY AWARDS
CHESHIRE
Sergeant Cameron Mair and PC Jarrad Sainsbury risked their safety to rescue a teenager from live railway tracks.
The pair responded to a call from the 17-year-old’s distraught parents and used the ‘find my iPhone’ app to track down the youngster.
Network Rail had been unable to put a stop on the line, meaning the young man was in extreme danger.
PS Mair said: “We had to go onto the tracks and remove him. Unfortunately, when we did, he gave us a bit of resistance, and the situation proved a bit difficult when trying to get him off the tracks in time. But obviously, we managed to do that and managed to get him to hospital.”
Cheshire Police
Federation Chair Jamie Thompson said the officers’ actions had quite simply saved the young man’s life.
PC Jarrad Sainsbury CLEVELAND
Three Cleveland Police officers risked their safety to stop a man intent on setting himself on fire. PCs Shahid Ahmed, Surfraz Hussain and Andrew Yau were attending a
recruitment session at Teeside University when they courageously ran towards the danger. The man was holding a lighter, there was a petrol canister on the ground next to him and he had obviously doused himself in the fuel. They managed to communicate effectively with the man, eventually detaining him so he could receive all the medical care he needed.
Cleveland Police Federation Chair Glen Teeley said the officers had shown real professionalism, particularly considering they had no PPE kit on them.
Sergeant Cameron Mair CUMBRIA
PCs Colin Dunne and Alun Masters responded to calls that children had been seen clinging to the rocks near a disused lighthouse. A lifeline was thrown out to the two 12-year-old girls, but they refused to take it as they were terrified of slipping off the rocks and back into the rough sea below them. The officers knew they had to act fast to prevent a tragic incident and decided to dive into the water to get the girls to safety. Cumbria Police Federation Chair Paul Williams said: “Police officers are much more than crime fighters and this incident once again showed our bobbies at their best.”
“Police officers are much more than crime fighters and this incident once again showed our bobbies at their best.”
DERBYSHIRE
Derbyshire PC Geoff Marshall put his life on the line to save thousands of others, earning him a nomination for his ‘outstanding bravery’. He helped to prevent the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir from collapsing and overwhelming the town of Whaley Bridge below.
The dramatic events of August 2019 were played out across the world’s media. Days of heavy rain had sent water raging over the dam wall, taking with it a huge section of the structure. Engineers estimated it was likely that the entire 250-metre long dam would fail, sending billions of litres of water onto the town.
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“All the officers present elected that they could not stand by and risk the death of around 2,000 people, including colleagues, without doing something.”
PC Geoff Marshall
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