{"id":154913,"date":"2020-11-30T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154913"},"modified":"2020-11-30T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:07:49","slug":"justgiving-page-set-up-to-support-essex-officer-seriously-injured-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154913","title":{"rendered":"JustGiving page set up to support Essex officer seriously injured last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">POLICE officers have been donating money to support a colleague who was seriously injured in Grays last month.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The unnamed officer was injured on duty on Saturday 31 October. She was taken to hospital by air ambulance where she was treated for serious but thankfully non-life changing or life-threatening injuries.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Laura Heggie, Essex Police Federation Chair, who visited the officer in hospital, said she will be out of action \u201cfor months and months\u201d.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She said: \u201cShe had quite significant injuries &#8211; she so easily could have been killed.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The public and officers have kindly been donating, and they have collected over \u00a32,000. But I\u2019d encourage anyone else who wants to donate to visit the Just Giving Page.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe officer is\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">back home recovering and\u00a0being supported very well, not only by colleagues from her shift and station\u00a0but the organisation as a whole,\u00a0this\u00a0was an\u00a0extremely\u00a0frightening incident.\u00a0To hear the officer recount the events made me go cold. It\u00a0serves as\u00a0a reminder\u00a0to all officers as\u00a0she was just on duty, doing her job. It\u00a0was a routine traffic stop that ended so badly through no fault of her own.\u00a0She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time\u00a0but that could have been any officer\u00a0and all officers should be able to go home at the end of their shift, not end up in Hospital.\u201d<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To support the officer, go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justgiving.com%2Fcrowdfunding%2Fofficerdowningrays%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3DExactTarget%26utm_campaign%3D20201126_&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C6cf3b79fffb44698251908d8921b25cb%7Cf6d79420e26a471dbaf15dbd9fe9faf3%7C0%7C0%7C637419992601501951%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=ZEAI9uShYfn6Lw1NC75ApMFJUlvODVPPc4We4KV7zl0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.justgiving.com%252Fcrowdfunding%252Fofficerdowningrays%253Futm_medium%253Demail%2526utm_source%253DExactTarget%2526utm_campaign%253D20201126_%26data%3D04%257C01%257C%257C6cf3b79fffb44698251908d8921b25cb%257Cf6d79420e26a471dbaf15dbd9fe9faf3%257C0%257C0%257C637419992601501951%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C1000%26sdata%3DZEAI9uShYfn6Lw1NC75ApMFJUlvODVPPc4We4KV7zl0%253D%26reserved%3D0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606755389463000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHskXhvrtovwixoxnOjMFVAHFnO3g\">www.justgiving.com\/<wbr \/>crowdfunding\/<wbr \/>officerdowningrays?utm_medium=<wbr \/>email&amp;utm_source=ExactTarget&amp;<wbr \/>utm_campaign=20201126_<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE officers have been donating money to support a colleague who was seriously injured in Grays last month. The unnamed officer was injured on duty on Saturday 31 October. She\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154913\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155085,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154913\/revisions\/155085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}