A POLICEMAN who spends his working life keeping passengers at Wembley Park station safe has been presented with an award for saving a man’s life.
Sergeant Mick Jackson, who is based at the British Transport Police’s (BTP) Wembley Park station, has been recognised by the Royal Humane Society for his quick response to an incident at Highbury Magistrates’ Court.
The 47-year-old said: “I was walking back from having sworn in the officers and was in full dress uniform. He was probably 10 yards away when he collapsed and fell down in front of me and I just switched into auto pilot.
“A crowd started gathering and I put him into the recovery position. I threw my mobile phone to someone to call an ambulance.
“I started chest compressions and CPR, but he was clearly gone. Afterwards they told me he had died twice while I had been working on him.”
The 51-year-old man, who had suffered a heart attack, was taken to intensive care.
Sgt Jackson said: “His daughter was with him at the time and she was in pieces. Once we had him in the back of the ambulance, I talked to her.
“I phoned the hospital every day. He was in intensive care but I knew he recovered. A doctor phoned me to say ‘well done’ and that I had saved his life.
“It is nice that there is someone alive because of my actions, someone enjoying their life because of something I did.
“That makes it all worthwhile.”
The officer, who has been in the force for 26 years and with the BTP for five years, said he had never had to make use of his resuscitation training before the incident in 2010.
BTP Chief Constable Andrew Trotter said: “I was very pleased to be able to present Sergeant Jackson with such a prestigious award for his life-saving actions, which were absolutely outstanding and a credit to him and the force.”
