Police Dog Fallon helps save injured man

Life-saving first aid has helped rescue a vulnerable man, with vital assistance provided by a Kent Police dog.

During the early hours of Sunday 17 April, the force received a call which said a man experiencing a mental health crisis was in serious danger in Medway.

The informant passed on fears that the man had sustained an injury before leaving the property and running into the dark – towards an area of woodland.

Found

It did not take long for PD Fallon, an 18-month-old German Shepherd, to pick up the man’s scent and she guided her handler, PC Scott James, through grassland before they crawled under a metal fence and cut through dense woodland.

After walking around 80 metres through heavy bramble bushes, she found the distressed man and it was immediately obvious that he had sustained a number of injuries which were life threatening.

PD Fallon and PC James were soon joined by colleagues from other policing teams and urgent first aid was quickly applied to help control heavy blood loss.

They were joined a short time later by paramedics from South East Coast Ambulance Service and the man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Detectives who specialise in supporting vulnerable individuals have since taken steps to ensure the man is supported.