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Donut pass go, Donut collect £200

As someone spotted in the comments section, the person in charge of the dreamfund (which we have received numerous complaints about – regarding money promised never turning up) has been caught trying to steal donuts from a Tesco Extra in Wisbech. This was in a police uniform, on his day job as a Cambridgeshire PC. This is just the latest case of a cop being less than above board whilst working for LR. We can think of at least 3 others right now – dishonesty, misrepresentation, fraud and ignoring illegality for conveniences’ sake. Anyone who has served with integrity in any organisation should be thoroughly disgusted by this kind of behaviour.

PC Simon Read – Cambridgeshire Police and Lowland Rescue

The worst news for all of us is that he appears in Lowland Rescue uniform on the pages of most of the national papers, and all of the local ones. The BBC also covers the story and shows The Pieman in LR hiviz, over his special ops covert tactical black. This picture appears in The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Times and The Mirror. There is a professional standards hearing this week, with Cambridgeshire Police stating that this “brings discredit upon the police service and undermines confidence in it because a reasonable member of the public, aware of all the facts, would be justifiably appalled that a police officer had acted dishonestly and without integrity”.

The questions remaining are:-

  1. Will LR consider this to be bringing the charity into disrepute? It should beggar belief that the police can sanction someone for dishonesty and LR would turn a blind eye. However, there are sadly numerous cases of people doing the wrong thing in and out of LR uniform and being actually rewarded, so maybe don’t hold your breath.
  • Does this explain where some or all the dreamfund money went? Or was that spent on legal fees,  trying to stitch up the previous chairman? Or a bit of both? A report was commissioned and promised when Dr Piers Page & James Rossell were booted out into what they did with all the cash, but so far this has been quietly buried. Some transparency would certainly put all the rumours / remaining questions to bed here…
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Diary of a Rescue Hero: May 22nd 2020

Got a good blue light run in to Virginia water today, to rescue an old lady. I was at B&Q in The Interceptor, which is actually a bit further away so managed to blatt it across almost the whole county. Got there before everyone else too, #speed_demon.

I went to say hello to the SEBEV guys but they just looked sullen and  not especially pleased to see me. They perked up when the Salvation Army van arrived thogh. I’m guessing low blood sugar. Anyway, turns out she was still in the old people’s home, and they just didn’t count right when they did the rounds in the morning.

Seamus wrote a great post on the social medias though that made it look like we’d found and rescued her again, and we even got our picture on the SurreyLive website, so all round success. #justoneman #makingadifference #bluelightrun

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Diary of a Rescue Hero: May 9th 2020

Got a shout to Sussex and I was halfway down the A24 on blues before I realised it was just a search for a vulnerable person. #boringsnoring I left it to the weird dog people and the OrdinarySAR chaps and went back to my project. It’s a Fokker E.III Eindecker but I keep getting the parts stuck to my fingers when they should be being stuck together. One of the wheel struts went up my nose the other day, and I don’t think its come out yet.

Better keep it quiet as Piers says that too many model aircraft parts in the brain can be harmful. Bit naughty, but bluelighted it back to B&Q for some more superglue. No point in putting them on the car if you don’t use them #everydayhero #justoneman #searchandrescue

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Diary of a Rescue Hero: April 16th 2020

Another shout last night at Hampton Court. I like the jobs there because I get to have a really long blue light run across pretty much the whole county. I arrived early, as obviously none of the rest of the team have a response car, so I mooched about a bit to see if I could get my picture in the paper.

Once the team arrived we got rigged and launched the new speedboat, but because we were all looking at the press lady we accidentally launched into the Diana fountain.

Seamus looked really angry with me, but I got the last laugh (again!) as the policeman in charge said that was where we’d probably be safest. Another day, another thrilling rescue. Well, not a rescue in this case as the chap we were looking for turned out to be round his mums house, but another blue light run anyway!

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another day, another blue light run

Residents of Walton on Thames will be aware that the man who fell into the river several weeks ago was recovered this week by Walton Bridge. They may even have witnessed a SAR vehicle arriving at speed after a blue light run from Woking, singled crewed and without any actual equipment.

It seems that one of the paramedics on scene escalated what appeared to be a bog-standard body recovery to a rescue, triggering the Fire Service’s water rescue PDA, including SURSAR.

Needless to say once they all arrived, one after an exciting BLR through north Surrey, they were immediately stood down as the job was in fact….. a body recovery.

So, who was this brave paramedic, who went against the flow, contradicted the police and fire service personnel on scene and insisted on a SURSAR response? Seems it was one of the trustee’s girlfriends.

Anything for a blue light run. eh?

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Valentines day massacre

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POOHS DIFFICULT DAY