It’s all in a day’s work for the police. But the awards that some of them received for their quick-thinking action last year highlights their vital work in aid of the community. Claudia Calleja recounts some of their stories.
It was 4am when officers on duty at the Paola police station received a frantic call from a doctor.
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He was standing outside an apartment block where, behind locked doors, a woman was trying to take her own life.
She had called her work colleagues to tell them she had just swallowed pills and alcohol.
Sergeant Conrad Ellul was on duty that day – July 18, 2020 – when the doctor placed the call asking for urgent assistance to get into the apartment.
Heading straight there with another police officer, Ellul rang the woman’s doorbell – getting no response – and then the buzzers of all the other apartments until someone opened the front door to the block.
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Rushing upstairs to the penthouse where the woman lived, Ellul tried to kick the door down to no avail.
“Then, someone got me a chisel and hammer and I managed to get the...
