A Lichfield police officer has been given a commendation after she helped find an OAP who had been reported missing from a care home.
Sergeant Beverley Rounds received the accolade as part of the Trent Valley divisional commendations which are awarded to police officers, police staff and members of the public who had gone above and beyond the line of duty and shown ‘courage, determination and compassion in helping victims and bringing offenders to justice’.
Sgt Rounds was called out on Christmas Day 2008 after a report from a residential care home near Lichfield giving details that a resident, a 70-year-old female who was suffering from dementia, diabetes and other ailments, was missing.
The citation which led to the commendation said:
“Sergeant Rounds attended the nursing home and took control of the situation which was potentially life threatening to the missing resident. She quickly organised a head count, a thorough search of the premises and instigated some other common sense plans in order to find the missing resident. It was from these actions that the lady was found in a room which the police had previously been informed was locked.
“It was through Sergeant Rounds’ determination to gain access to this room that it was forced open and the missing resident found. If not for so much determination by Sergeant Rounds the lady may well have suffered considerably. As a result of this incident a case conference was held and attended by Sergeant Rounds in her own time. From this there was a full review of the care home and the incident.
“Sergeant Rounds is presented the Certificate of Commendation by the Divisional Commander for her thorough and controlled search of the resident home which found the missing resident safe and well.”
