Brave Telford police officers who saved girl trying to jump from bridge over A442 are honoured
Two Telford police officers who prevented a teenage girl from jumping from a bridge over the A442 are to receive national awards for their bravery.
Police had been alerted after the girl ran away from a care home. On the evening of January 23 last year, PCs Peter Smith and Samad Shabbir spotted her riding a bike and PC Shabbir got out of the car and ran after her. However, he could not catch her and returned to the police car.
The girl had disappeared but the officers spotted her again later. This time when she saw the car she ran to the bridge and climbed on to the outside of it. As they reached the bridge PC Shabbir, who thought she was about to jump, jumped out of the still-moving police car, managed to grab her and pull her back to safety. PC Smith then joined him and they managed to get the girl into the police car and take her back to her carers.
