A COP who gave an armed robber mouth-to-mouth after he collapsed while fleeing from a massage palour has received a bravery award.
Police constables Darren Shannon and Andrew Ricks confronted the knife-wielding 17-year-old after he broke into a Three Bridges massage parlour in August and demanded cash.
The intruder leapt from a 15ft balcony with his two acomplices and suffere
d a fit, his breathing stopped and his heart stopped beating.
But PC Shannon - who received a certificate of merit from the Royal Humane Society - had just completed a paramedic course and was able to resusitate him.
When ambulance crews arrived, he aided paramedics in the back of the ambulance while PC Ricks took the wheel. Both officers were honoured at the North Downs Division Awards ceremony at Slaugham Manor.
A spokeswoman for Sussex Police said: "Had it not been for the actions of these two officers there is a strong possibility that the 17-year-old may have died at the scene."
Also receiving awards were PC Stewart Homewood, who liaised with Met cops to catch eight female shoplifters from London who had nabbed £6,500 worth of clothes from chainstores in Crawley in March 2007.
And PCSOs Michelle Hayes and Geoff Pitcher whose actions led to a notorious offender being apprehended after off-duty officers saw him checking parked cars on Three Bridges Road.
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