Coronavirus: Police forces deliver 12-year-old's PPE for grandmoth

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Grandmother and grandson Cameron DouglasImage copyright Northamptonshire Police
Image caption Cameron Douglas (correct) wished to send PPE to his grandmother, photographed together sooner than lockdown restrictions

A 12-year-extinct boy became once ready to elevate his dwelling made interior most protective equipment (PPE) to his grandmother 70 miles away attributable to 2 police forces.

Cameron Douglas from Northampton became once instructed by police he might perhaps well not hasten to his grandmother’s care dwelling in Royal Wootton Basset in Wiltshire.

But the Northamptonshire force became once ready to work with Wiltshire Police to pass the face shields.

Cameron acknowledged: “Thank you so noteworthy to the general police officers who helped me.”

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Image caption Northamptonshire Police nonetheless the bundle from Cameron’s dwelling

Final month the 12-year-extinct oldschool his pocket money and space up a fundraising page to eradicate a 3D printer to originate PPE.

He created face shields and face conceal grips for native care properties and the NHS at some level of the coronavirus pandemic.

On 30 April, at some level of a Facebook Reside ask and answer session with Northamptonshire Police, he asked whether or not his family might perhaps well hasten to his grandmother in Wiltshire to elevate her some PPE.

The force acknowledged he might perhaps well not because it became once not an “valuable lag” but made contact with Wiltshire Police and offered to bear in mind it for him.

Officers from Northamptonshire Police’s driver training faculty nonetheless the PPE from Cameron’s dwelling and drove it to the Wiltshire border as fragment of their training.

From there it became once picked up by Wiltshire Law enforcement officials who dropped it off to Cameron’s grandmother.

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Image caption Cameron’s grandmother acknowledged she became once very happy along with her grandson

Supt Elliot Foskett, from Northamptonshire Police, acknowledged: “I in actuality wished to wait on him fulfil his ambitions of constructing sure his grandmother acquired the PPE he’d worked so hard to originate.

“I’m in actuality ecstatic that we had been ready to work with our web site visitors in Wiltshire to originate it occur and it became once so rate it to study how delighted this 12-year-extinct boy became once as a outcome.”

Sgt James Rodrigues from Wiltshire Police, acknowledged: “The actions of this young boy had been selfless and extraordinarily model.”

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