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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Ellie Kendall

Police officer walks 17 miles barefoot in just his shorts for charity

A policeman walked from Cheddar Gorge to the Clifton Suspension Bridge wearing just a pair of shorts and no shoes for a mental health charity.

PC Shane Jones, a dog handler with Avon and Somerset Police, completed the 17-mile walk barefoot, despite torrential rain and 20mph winds. He undertook the challenge to encourage people to talk about mental health and to raise money for Mind, all because of the number of times he and police dog Delta are called to search for people who have gone missing while experiencing poor mental health.

Delta even joined him for the first leg of his walk at 9am yesterday (Sunday, February 13). Several hours and 46,200 steps later, Shane reached Clifton.

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