Jeremy Olive of Patchway was given a Waley Cohen award for coming to the aid of three women who were being threatened in the street.

Mr Olive was driving in Lysander Road, Patchway, in June this year, when he stopped to help after seeing a man behaving very aggressively towards the women, whose car window had been smashed.

He got out of his vehicle and prevented the man from getting closer to the victims, despite being threatened and abused himself. Following Mr Olive’s intervention the man drove away, but Mr Olive remained with the women until the police arrived.

Josh Felvus and Liam Jempson of Bristol, along with a third man who asked not to be named, were presented with a Royal Humane Society parchment in recognition of their rescue of another man from the Avon Canal in April 2011.

The men were walking home at about 5.40am when they saw a man struggling in the water. They jumped in and spent 20 minutes getting the man to the bank, where other members of the public helped get him out of the water.

He was unconscious and suffering from hypothermia but recovered in hospital.

Mr Jempson also needed hospital treatment after the incident.

PCs Shane Agrela, Daniel Bishop, Philip Coleman and Huw Jenkins were presented with Royal Humane Society certificates of commendation after saving a man from falling 40 feet from the Obridge Viaduct in Taunton.

PCs Bishop and Jenkins were called to reports of a man standing on the wrong side of the barrier at about 11pm on July 4 2011.

The man was crouching on a 12 inch wide, sloping ledge.

The PCs started to talk to the man while PCs Agrela and Coleman controlled the traffic.

When the man slipped and grabbed the barrier PC Bishop grabbed his hand and he and PC Jenkins supported his weight. PCs Agrela and Coleman then helped pull the man to safety.

PCs Neil Forsyth and Nick Murrie, along with two other officers who have asked not to be named, have been awarded Royal Humane Society resuscitation certificates for saving a man who tried to hang himself in Yate.

The officers were called on July 21 2011 after a man threatened to kill himself. His partner had run to a neighbour’s house to call police after he threatened her with a knife.

The officers went straight into the house and found the man hanging. They cut him down and all four took turns in administering CPR.

The man was taken by air ambulance to hospital and survived.

DC Joanna Wright of Operation Bluestone, Avon and Somerset Police’s dedicated sexual offences investigation team received a Crown Court Commendation for her work bringing two rapists to justice.

The case involved two men who co-operated to prey on vulnerable women in Bristol.

Following their conviction at Bristol Crown Court in February 2012 His Honour Judge Roach said: “This case involved women who were socially disadvantaged and particularly fragile. It needed careful directing and delicate handling. It was well organised and well presented by the police. I commend DC Wright for her part in this difficult case.”

DC Larisa Hunt was awarded a Crown Court Commendation for her work bringing a man to justice for the abuse of three children.

He was convicted at Bristol Crown Court in April 2011 and Her Honour Judge Hagen said: “DC Hunt acted in a responsible and wholly commendable way. She did so in a manner that is worthy of recognition. I wish to give my thanks and admiration for her conduct of the interviews with the complainants.”

DC Hunt said: “This is the hardest case that I have ever dealt with because of how frequent and violent the abuse was. The credit for the successful conclusion of the case and the offender being sentenced to twenty years imprisonment lies with the victims who gave compelling evidence during the trial.”

The Kingswood neighbourhood team was presented with the Hari Joshi trophy in recognition of their contribution to community relations in Kingswood.

The team were nominated for the award for activities including:

• Increasing their presence in the community by co-locating into South Gloucestershire Council’s Kingswood offices


• Working with the community revitalise local shop and pub watch schemes


• Working with the ex-Gurkha security guards at the Kings Chase Shopping Centre to improve reporting of hate crime, bring offenders to justice and reduce incidents


• Working closely with their CID colleagues in an operation which led to the conviction of 11 Kingswood-based Class A drug dealers, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders were subsequently imposed on a number of the offenders by South Gloucestershire Council with the support of the community and police.


• Mentoring challenging, at risk young people and diverting them from becoming involved in crime and disorder through sport and work placement


• Working to support Connecting Kingswood, a partnership of local community organisations, voluntary groups and agencies working together to improve all aspects of life for people living and working in Kingswood.

Sergeant Paul Endicott was given a Chief Constable’s Commendation for his dedication and tenacity in bringing charges against a clamping firm in Bridgwater.

Bridgwater police began receiving complaints that the company was obtaining excessive payments from the public for release of their vehicles in 2006.

Paul, then PC Endicott, found that the firm was not registered and the defendants were claiming benefits and not paying income tax.

He worked with other agencies and forces in a long-running investigation which culminated in all three defendants admitting conspiracy to commit blackmail, with two admitting numerous benefit, tax and consumer protection offences amounting to more than £250,000.

They were sentenced to a total of 10 years’ in prison for more than 40 offences in all.

Paul kept ownership of this complicated multi-agency case despite his promotion to sergeant and subsequent move to Burnham-on-Sea in 2008.