A Nottinghamshire police officer clung on to a drowning man for 20 minutes until he could be rescued after falling into the River Trent. Officers received reports a man had fallen into the water close to the Millenium Bridge in Newark just before 8pm on Wednesday, January 11.
Sergeant Robert Harrison leads the neighbourhood policing team and recalls having to climb down the side of the river bank to reach the man whilst his fellow officers held onto him until help arrived. Members of East Midlands Ambulance Service and Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue also attended the incident.
Sergeant Harrison said: "Right underneath the bridge itself there was a chap in the water that a member of the public had heard. He had managed to get to the side of the river, but he had popped up in a massive thorn bush and it was really difficult to get to him because he was up against the bridge structure, there was only about a foot gap to where we could get to him.
