GMP Community Tribute to PC
Tribute to PC
Andrew Bramma
Gareth Francis
COLLEAGUES from Rochdale B relief have paid tribute to former colleague PC Andrew Bramma, who was sadly killed whilst on duty in North Yorkshire. Andrew had only left GMP to join North Yorkshire Constabulary in August 2012. He died after his patrol van hit a tree while he was responding to a 999 call on 5 January 2013. He leaves his wife, Kathryn and young two sons, Jack and Sam. Andrew spent his almost four years service with GMP in Rochdale on Response. Andrew’s friends and former colleagues said: “Andrew was a great police officer and a loving family man. “For anyone who knew him, Andrew was meticulous in everything he did, nothing would ever beat him and he would leave no stone unturned to find his answers. Every job he dealt with was always done to A* standard.” helped a lot and I found where his ashes had been scattered. It was very beneficial to me and I think what the police do nowadays to help the newly bereaved families, it must help them. The more you talk about it, the easier it becomes.” The Stockport Chief Superintendent at the time, Ch Supt Pugh said PC Rodgers was a likeable, lively and popular officer. He was the sort of young man the Police Service needed and sad that his life should have ended on the eve of his best years. Ch Supt Pugh wrote in a letter, “it is typical of the man, that, when critically ill in hospital and only able to speak with difficulty, he mentioned the accident, and asked of his wife and children.”
COLLEAGUES have paid tribute to PC Gareth Francis, who was killed while offduty after a night out with friends in the early hours of Sunday morning, 20 January. Gareth was assaulted on Castle Street, Edgeley and despite the fact emergency services were quickly at the scene and first aid was given by paramedics, sadly Gareth died a short time later at Stepping Hill Hospital. Gareth joined GMP in 2007 and was tutored in a neighbourhood team on the South Manchester Division. He then moved to response and until recently was based at Wythenshawe as a response officer, before moving to West Didsbury Police Station. Gareth’s supervisor for the last four years, Sergeant Alex Cairns described Gareth as, “the kind of officer who would quietly get on with his job with the minimum of supervision. If you needed something doing quietly and efficiently then he was your man. He
approached everything in work with an outstandingly positive attitude and all of his colleagues, without exception, felt a sense of relief when they knew Gareth would be attending a difficult or potentially dangerous incident with them. “That was the esteem in which his fellow officers held him. He was always the consummate professional police officer.”
Roll of Honour GMP Officers and PCSOs who have been killed in the line of duty. · 1975: PC Ian Rodgers
· 1999: PC Robert Nathans
· 1976: PC Norman Salisbury
· 1999: PC Peter Fox
· 1977: PC John Cameron
· 1999: PC Raja Bashrat Ahmed
· 1978: PC George Main
· 2001: PC Alison Armitage
· 1980 PC Deborah Nicholson
· 2003: Det Con Stephen Oake
· 1981: PC Michael Entwistle
· 2006: PC Allan Shaw
· 1982: PC John Egerton
· 2007: PCSO Christopher Maclure
· 1982: Det Con John Sandford
· 2008: PC Christopher Hart
· 1986: Det Sgt Thomas McCarthy
· 2008: PC Ian Terry
· 1989: PC Nigel John Heap
· 2012: Det Con Andrew Stokes
· 1989: Insp Raymond Codling
· 2012: PC Fiona Bone
· 1996: Det Con Kevin Dearnaley
· 2012: PC Nicola Hughes
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