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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Tributes paid to Nottinghamshire police officer who died trying to save man’s life

Police officers at Durham constabulary hold a minute’s silence as tribute for Sgt Graham Saville.
Police officers at Durham constabulary hold a minute’s silence as tribute for Sgt Graham Saville. Photograph: Durham Constabulary

A police officer who died after being hit by a train while helping a distressed man has been described as “everything that you would want in a police officer” by a former colleague.

The chair of Nottinghamshire Police Federation, Insp Simon Riley, said Sgt Graham Saville was a “caring, compassionate, strongly determined, and just generally an all-around good, professional police officer”.

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