An off-duty police constable saved a woman’s life while walking her dog in the West Midlands earlier this year.
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00:00She couldn't breathe and she literally couldn't get any air in and you could hear her struggling
00:07to breathe and the other dog walker had already called the ambulance
00:10and they were saying to start CPR on her.
00:20So I was walking the dog and we were just walking back towards home and I just
00:28saw another one of one of the dog walkers from the village who was stood at the side of the shop
00:36and it was just it just seemed out of place it just didn't seem quite right I just couldn't work
00:40out what it was I was seeing and I just sort of called across and said are you okay.
00:45As I approached I could see Regina was really struggling to breathe yeah it was all quite
00:54surreal I didn't quite expect to find that you know half past seven on the morning
00:57with my dog walk.
00:59I just woke up so then I feel like being chopped
01:06then I told my husband I can't breathe.
01:10I was in the kitchen so she called me saying she's no longer breathing well
01:15so she was going downstairs so that she can get some fresh air.
01:19When I reached the door I remember spinning outside the house.
01:25She literally couldn't get any air in and you could hear her struggling to breathe.
01:29She was producing a very very big sound.
01:33I started to do some compressions on her.
01:37Then I went to the to the shop to look for someone to assist me with calling the ambulance.
01:43After some time then I saw Kirsty.
01:47We got her moved because you couldn't do it where she was and started chest compressions.
01:52They got her breathing so even though the breathing was very labored
01:56very rattly thankfully at that point she started breathing and the ambulance arrived so yeah
02:02they were obviously able to take over.
02:04So all along the baby was asleep so I had to stay with the baby then followed with the baby later.
02:12After you collapsed, what do you remember next?
02:16Maybe it was the second day when I was about to go into the theater.
02:22I'm a Christian. I remember praying. I was praying about my kids.
02:29As a police officer when you're sent to a job, when you're on response and you're sent to a job,
02:33you have time when you're driving to that job to process what you're about to go to or to think about and plan.
02:40I didn't have any of that time because it was all very, very quick.
02:45I just went into autopilot. I think years and years of training just got on with it.
02:51The war scenario, it irritates me especially when I look.
02:59Yes, then I start thinking I was going to leave my kids.
03:07It irritates me.
03:10It was terrible. It was like someone's going to die, you know.
03:16And also because of the fact that she has got a small baby.
03:21And it was something I've never experienced in my life.
03:25I think most police officers will tell you they've joined the job because they want to do good,
03:30they want to help people. And that for me is the satisfaction that you get.
03:35So often you come across situations like this and it doesn't end with a positive result.
03:40So it's just it helps you, you know, do what you do when you know you can have such an enormous
03:47impact and such enormous effect on somebody's life.
03:49You know, she has a one month old baby.
03:53Is it understating it perhaps that you saved her life that day or played a part in saving her life that day?
04:01I'd like to think I played a part. Yeah, I'd like to think I did.
04:05Certainly the other people that were around thanked me afterwards and just said thank goodness you were
04:12here, which I think that in itself sort of hit home that I had done, I'd done something positive for the day.
04:19I think for everybody to learn the basic skills of CPR, it's
04:25yeah, vitally important. But yes, obviously as a police officer, it's those first aid skills are often
04:31often needed because you're often the first on the scene at an incident.
04:35Do you think you've got a friend for life in Kirsty now, someone that you'll always keep in touch with?
04:41Yeah.
04:42Yeah.
04:42Yes.