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Officers who won commendations. |
Thin brave line: Police officers win commendations
FIFTY-TWO Camden police officers and two members of the public were recognised for bravery, professionalism or quick-thinking at a police commendation ceremony at the Town Hall on Thursday.
Among officers honoured at a ceremony attended by Camden Mayor Councillor Faruque Ansari were police constables James McGahern and Ian Currums, who entered a building filled with smoke to evacuate 17 people after an arson attack in March.
The investigative abilities of Camden’s “crime squad” won recognition. Its nine detectives achieved a string of convictions over 18 months and tracked down, among other successes, a gunman who ran amok through Acland Burghley School in Tufnell Park with a sawn-off shotgun last December.
PCs James Garrett and Michael Branford were praised for tackling, unarmed, a man who had threatened nightclub staff with a pistol in his waistband. The robbery squad under Detective Inspector Gary Randall was commended for snaring a gang who posed as police officers to pull off multi-million pound cons at Camden businesses.
PCs Keith Handley and Russ Massie won praise for saving the life of a composer stabbed through the heart outside a Camden Town pub in November last year. PC Gordon Hume, who was attending a football tournament in Fitzrovia when a 17-year-old player collapsed last November, was praised for his attempt to save the boy’s life and subsequent support to the grieving family.
PCs Samantha Sheppard and Helen Gibson were commended for their work with the victims of sexual attacks. |
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