This is what real policing looks like.🥹
At 1am on a Friday morning, PCs Jack Milman and Tom McGrath from @leicspolice forced their way into a home after hearing a woman being stabbed. What they walked into was absolutely horrific... a man strangling his partner with one arm and driving an eight-inch kitchen knife into her chest with the other.
They didn’t wait. PC Milman used captor spray and disarmed the attacker. PC McGrath pulled the victim to safety and used his own fingers to plug a catastrophic bleed while the suspect, still resisting, was wedged behind her.
For six minutes these two young officers — both just a few years into the job — held the thin 💙 line. They dealt with a dying victim, an unstable armed suspect, and a blood-soaked, confined crime scene, while waiting for backup. When the trauma kit was needed, one ran to the car. The other stayed behind, alone with a killer and an unconscious woman. No armour. No firearms. No backup. Just guts.
She lived. Because they did what they weren’t paid to do. What no one should have to do. And then, they went back to work.
The judge said it best: “Some will say it’s just what police are paid to do. I don’t. What they did, they did damn well — and they prevented a tragedy.”
These officers have been nominated for the National Police Bravery Awards 2025. And they damn well deserve it.
This is why policing matters. This is why our officers deserve your support.💙
An update from Chief Constable Tim Forber following yesterday’s tragic news 👇
The entire force is devastated about the loss of PC Rosie Prior.
Our thoughts are also with the family of Ryan Welford, 41, from Knaresborough who died at the scene.
'By the time that you watch this I will no longer be here'
A poignant final message from the Leeds Rhinos legend and MND campaigner recorded before his death for a special BBC documentary 'There's Only One Rob Burrow'
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Officers fearlessly ran into a burning building to rescue those trapped inside.
They arrived in under five minutes and thanks to their quick action no one suffered serious injuries.
Seven officers and six residents were taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and have since been discharged.
The fire is being treated as suspicious and a man has been arrested.
Read more: https://t.co/ri6jxsZiGo
We can choose our own news stories, rather the ones being hyped by media sources. I'm choosing to remember late PC William Sampson who took his own life earlier this year. The loss of two Officers per month to suicide is a much neglected news story, in my personal view. RIP