00:00Okay and Alex, as an officer on the beach, just how useful is this life saving equipment going to be?
00:05It really is an amazing opportunity. We do arrive at jobs where CPR is acquired prior to ambulance quite often.
00:12Often it is us waiting for ambulance to arrive, we will just be given the initial CPR.
00:17So to have the opportunity to have this kid on board, it just gives us every second counts when it comes to giving CPR.
00:24So it just gives us that vital time and chance to save lives and ultimately keep people safe.
00:29And can you recall any situations where this would have made a massive difference between life and death?
00:33Yeah, we even had an incident last week where I was on shift where a male in his own home address was required to receive CPR.
00:42On that occasion, we did arrive at the same time as paramedics.
00:47However, had that not been the case, then that's one of those incidences where the defib would have been perfect to have on board with us.
00:55Okay and Sir, do you understand the charity donated £200,000 to get these defibrillators?
01:00Just why were you so keen to get involved in this particular project?
01:03Because typically in a medical emergency, the police are first on the scene.
01:08And while they wait for an ambulance, the only thing they can do is hands-on CPR.
01:12But by giving them the tools to do the job and to save a life by using a defibrillator,
01:17it's absolutely going to change the way that people's surviving rates are going to be counted.
01:21We're really, really confident that the amount of defibrillators across the force now is going to generate so much positivity as well
01:28and give that every person a chance.
01:31We're hoping to demonstrate this by presenting some statistics as well through and create Jamie's Law,
01:38which is a story about a young lad who's from Warwickshire whose parents have wanted to campaign to get defibrillators into police vehicles.
01:48We reached out to them as well and said we'd like to help them achieve that goal.
01:51And by working with Northumbria Police, which has been an absolute dream, we've been able to do that in quick time as well.
01:58We only had the ball in March to raise those funds, but this is exactly what we do with the money.
02:03We're able to demonstrate why the money goes to it, but most importantly we're able to demonstrate the lives that can be saved by supporting the Red Sky Foundation.
02:11And how did the connection between yourself and the police come about?
02:14Did they approach you or were you aware of the situation in needing these defibrillators?
02:17I was made aware of the situation from Naomi and Jem from the Our J Foundation.
02:22We had a conversation to see about how we could help with them.
02:24And obviously the Northumbria Police is my force as well, where I live.
02:28And that was the immediate go-to to help to see if we could support them.
02:32And the idea was as soon as we presented that proposal to the force that they were so slow on board.
02:39I know that the internal comms within the force itself has been absolutely inundated with well wishes and congratulations to the people involved who have raised this money.
02:50We'd like to thank our trustees, our volunteers, the people who do amazing things, the people who have come to support our events that can actually make this happen.
02:58Okay and Philip, can you just go back to January please and tell me what happened after the Stoke game?
03:04After the Stoke game I walked across the bridge, Weymouth Bridge with my friend.
03:10We decided to go into the three stories pub, ordered the round and that's when I had my cardiac arrest.
03:18I went out like someone switching a light bulb and that's when the luck factor really came into play.
03:27Where I fell, four nurses were sitting there.
03:30This has all been relayed to me.
03:33Two of them started cardiac arrest.
03:36The barmaid behind the bar had just qualified as a paramedic.
03:40She came in to help so I had those people helping me.
03:45Then the police arrived, apparently cleared the bar and they took over.
03:51Thankfully they're the ones who really kept us going until the paramedics arrived.
03:57The paramedics arrived and I was defibbed and that's when I was brought back round.
04:04Well, I came back to be conscious. I didn't really recover consciousness until the next year.
04:11So was it the ambulance service or the police who had the defibrillator?
04:14It was the paramedics who had the defibrillator.
04:16So obviously you've survived anyway, but if the police had these life-saving pieces of equipment,
04:21they could have gone on you sooner, yeah?
04:23I would have been brought round much, much sooner.
04:25And this is why, basically, if it hadn't been a match day and all the emergency services been around,
04:32the end result might not have been as clever.
04:35So the fact that every police car now is going to be carrying a defibrillator, what do you thought?
04:40It's an absolute bonus. It's something I want to see.
04:45Hi, so obviously we've got, I believe, 154 defibrillators going in all the response cars in Northumbria Police.
04:51Just what bigger difference is this going to make?
04:54Well, keeping people safe and fighting crime is our purpose.
04:57And to do that we really need the public support.
04:59And today we're being absolutely bowled over by the support from Sergio, the Red Sky Foundation,
05:04everyone who supports the charity to be able to donate 154 defibrillators.
05:09This is massive for the force.
05:11This will enable our response officers who deploy to emergency and priority incidents
05:16to have life-saving equipment immediately available on the back of the police vehicle.
05:20Can you recall any incidents where this would have been between life and death?
05:24Sadly, there has been occasions when, due to the very nature of officers deploying,
05:28they need to carry out first aid.
05:31And previously we've needed to access defibrillators in community settings,
05:36which we know can take vital minutes.
05:38Again, this will enable those officers to have that vital life-saving kit immediately available to them.
05:43So we know it will make a huge difference to our communities.
