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DCI Martin Pasmore
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Essex Police officers and staff have been recognised in the Queen s New Year s Honours List.
Jenny Brouard will receive an honour for her voluntary and charitable services, and five staff will receive a Queen’s Police Medal for services to policing. They are Detective Inspector Caroline Williams, Detective Chief Inspector Jasmine Frost, Detective Chief Inspector Martin Pasmore, Chief Superintendent Stuart Hooper, and Detective Inspector Michelle Stoten.
Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said: “Our officers, staff and volunteers go above and beyond every day of the year to protect victims, support the vulnerable and bring criminals to justice. It’s a privilege to see these six individuals honoured in this way.
Three decades later, Lockerbie’s hidden angels relive the rescue of their brethren’s remains and bringing them to kever Yisrael
Photos: Family Archives
Air-traffic controller Alan Topp sat with his eyes fixed to the radar screen, watching the white marker indicating that Pan Am Flight 103, which had taken off from London’s Heathrow airport 27 minutes before, had crossed into Scottish airspace on its voyage across the Atlantic to New York. It was a pretty standard route, nothing too interesting that December night over three decades ago, but suddenly, Topp shot to full attention: The radar screen showed not just one blip where Flight 103 should have been, but four. Topp tried to contact the pilot of the aircraft, but there was no response. He buzzed the oceanic controllers responsible for the plane’s Atlantic crossing, but they too had lost contact with the plane. As his colleagues gathered around his screen, they would soon learn that those four blips represented the c