Off duty PC helps save woman's life

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An off-duty police constable saved a woman’s life while walking her dog in the West Midlands earlier this year.

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00:00She couldn't breathe and she literally couldn't get any air in and you could hear her struggling

00:07to breathe and the other dog walker had already called the ambulance

00:10and they were saying to start CPR on her.

00:20So I was walking the dog and we were just walking back towards home and I just

00:28saw another one of one of the dog walkers from the village who was stood at the side of the shop

00:36and it was just it just seemed out of place it just didn't seem quite right I just couldn't work

00:40out what it was I was seeing and I just sort of called across and said are you okay.

00:45As I approached I could see Regina was really struggling to breathe yeah it was all quite

00:54surreal I didn't quite expect to find that you know half past seven on the morning

00:57with my dog walk.

00:59I just woke up so then I feel like being chopped

01:06then I told my husband I can't breathe.

01:10I was in the kitchen so she called me saying she's no longer breathing well

01:15so she was going downstairs so that she can get some fresh air.

01:19When I reached the door I remember spinning outside the house.

01:25She literally couldn't get any air in and you could hear her struggling to breathe.

01:29She was producing a very very big sound.

01:33I started to do some compressions on her.

01:37Then I went to the to the shop to look for someone to assist me with calling the ambulance.

01:43After some time then I saw Kirsty.

01:47We got her moved because you couldn't do it where she was and started chest compressions.

01:52They got her breathing so even though the breathing was very labored

01:56very rattly thankfully at that point she started breathing and the ambulance arrived so yeah

02:02they were obviously able to take over.

02:04So all along the baby was asleep so I had to stay with the baby then followed with the baby later.

02:12After you collapsed, what do you remember next?

02:16Maybe it was the second day when I was about to go into the theater.

02:22I'm a Christian. I remember praying. I was praying about my kids.

02:29As a police officer when you're sent to a job, when you're on response and you're sent to a job,

02:33you have time when you're driving to that job to process what you're about to go to or to think about and plan.

02:40I didn't have any of that time because it was all very, very quick.

02:45I just went into autopilot. I think years and years of training just got on with it.

02:51The war scenario, it irritates me especially when I look.

02:59Yes, then I start thinking I was going to leave my kids.

03:07It irritates me.

03:10It was terrible. It was like someone's going to die, you know.

03:16And also because of the fact that she has got a small baby.

03:21And it was something I've never experienced in my life.

03:25I think most police officers will tell you they've joined the job because they want to do good,

03:30they want to help people. And that for me is the satisfaction that you get.

03:35So often you come across situations like this and it doesn't end with a positive result.

03:40So it's just it helps you, you know, do what you do when you know you can have such an enormous

03:47impact and such enormous effect on somebody's life.

03:49You know, she has a one month old baby.

03:53Is it understating it perhaps that you saved her life that day or played a part in saving her life that day?

04:01I'd like to think I played a part. Yeah, I'd like to think I did.

04:05Certainly the other people that were around thanked me afterwards and just said thank goodness you were

04:12here, which I think that in itself sort of hit home that I had done, I'd done something positive for the day.

04:19I think for everybody to learn the basic skills of CPR, it's

04:25yeah, vitally important. But yes, obviously as a police officer, it's those first aid skills are often

04:31often needed because you're often the first on the scene at an incident.

04:35Do you think you've got a friend for life in Kirsty now, someone that you'll always keep in touch with?

04:41Yeah.

04:42Yeah.

04:42Yes.

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