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Public Choice Award 2018 – who wins? You decide!

Members of the public are being asked to choose the winner of this year’s North Yorkshire Police Public Choice Award.

Public Choice Award 2018 – who wins? You decide!Each year the Force collects nominations for officers, staff and volunteers who have shown particular courage, compassion and inspiration in the course of their duties.  A shortlist is selected and put to public vote.

Past winners of the Public Choice Award include PC Richard Farrar, who single-handedly tackled an armed thief, PC Mike Tinsley for handling a domestic knife attack and Sergeant Ed Simpson for his work in breaking down the stigma of mental illness in the blue light services.

This year the nominees include:

  • Police staff member Kim Wray, for her work with Police Cadets
  • PC Mike Barker, for saving a man from suicide
  • DS Angie Carey for her work safeguarding adults and children
  • PC Craig Davies and PC Richard O’Connell for tackling a knife-man in a domestic incident
  • DS Tracey Williams for her work on child safeguarding
  • The Rural Taskforce
  • Sergeant Amy Hunter for her campaign to create a memorial for a colleague murdered on duty
  • PCSO Angie Smith for supporting students and staff at a school in the aftermath of a gun-plot

To read about the nominees and place your vote, visit:  www.northyorkshire.police.uk/award18   Voting closes at noon on 11 October.
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Local children invited to enter York Remembers poetry competition

In honour of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, local children and young people are being encouraged to submit commemorative poems as part of a York Army Museum competition.

The competition is part of ‘York Remembers: Lifting the shadow of the First World War’, a remembrance project co-ordinated by City of York Council, and which schools and individuals aged 7 – 18 can enter.

The poem should be an original piece on First World War remembrance.

Submissions are divided into five age categories; children in school years 3 – 4 and years 5 – 6; and young people in school years 7, 8 and 9, years 10 – 11 and years 12 – 13.

Children’s poems should be no longer than 28 lines, while poems submitted by young people should not exceed 40 lines. Entries can be hand delivered, sent to the York Army Museum by post or emailed to yorkrememberspoetry@gmail.com by 12 noon on Friday 28 September.

Winners will be announced on National Poetry Day, Thursday 4 October at Explore Acomb Library by York poet, Doreen Gurrey, and will receive a book token and certificate in each category.

Allison Freeman, activities officer at York Army Museum, said: ‘We are excited to be hosting the York Remembers poetry competition for children and young people, and looking forward to reading the submitted poems.  We are especially pleased that York poet, Doreen Gurrey, has agreed to judge this competition commemorating the ending of the First World War.’