Awards for officers who risked their lives to save man
BRAVE and heroic South Yorkshire Police officers who risked their lives and saved the lives of others have been honoured by the force.
Sheffield PCs Christopher Beevers and Chelsea Rudge fought to save a man battered and left for dead in a burning flat before risking their own lives to enter the inferno looking for suspects.
The pair found 44-year-old Cy Cooper lifeless on the floor of his home Wincobank, dragged him out of the burning property and fought to revive him before paramedics arrived.
They then entered the smoke-filled flat to check it was empty before risking their lives for a second time after spotting two men, one of whom was later convicted of murder, going inside.
Presenting bravery awards to PCs Beevers and Rudge, Chief Inspector Richard Lambert said: “Bravery is doing something for the greater good despite the fear that you feel, to run in the opposite direction to everyone else in the direction of the source of danger not away from it. To do so feeling the same fear that the others feel, but to put yourself potentially in harm’s way and still conduct yourself professionally and calmly.
Also honoured was PC Tracey Bullas for saving the life of a man who stopped breathing after he was stabbed in the neck by his ex-partner’s new boyfriend.
When she arrived at a property in Beighton, PC Bullas found a man slumped over the arm of a settee with a knife embedded in his neck.
Michael Mallinder, of Armstead Road, Brighton, who was later jailed for 20 years for the attack which paralysed his victim, was found next to the casualty.
Superintendent Shaun Morley described the PC Bullas’s actions as ‘extraordinary and courageous’.
“PC Bullas found a large amount of blood including blood splatters all over the living room wall and a male slumped over the arm of a settee with a black handled knife sticking out of the back of his neck, with the offender stood over him holding a knif,” he said.
“She immediately took out her Taser and ‘red dotted’ the offender. She told him to drop the weapon, which he did, and was arrested by her colleague.
“PC Bullas took responsibility of the care of victim.”
The surgeon who treated the injured man said the actions of PC Bullas ‘without doubt saved his life’.
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