Resuscitation certificate for courageous police officer

PC Jo Alngohuro, a response officer from Scarborough and Ryedale, has been recognised by the Royal Humane Society for her valiant efforts to help save a woman’s life.

On 26 February 2024 at 10.13am, PC Alngohuro was tasked to make a welfare check at a house in Malton on behalf of Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

PC Alngohuro and her colleagues forced entry into the address.

They were able to leave the patient in the hands of the paramedics who were intending to take her to York Hospital for observations.

However, 45 minutes later, North Yorkshire Police’s Force Control Room received an urgent request from ambulance reporting that the patient is now receiving CPR.

Ambulance control stated they had no other ambulances nearby to help and that they required someone to assist the paramedic in the back of the ambulance while the other drove to York.

PC Alngohuro re-attended with another officer and got straight into the back of the ambulance.

She took it in turns with the paramedic to perform CPR on the patient on the journey from Malton to York.

Sadly, the patient was pronounced dead at hospital.

PC Alngohuro’s name was put forward to the Royal Humane Society.

At a ceremony held at North Yorkshire Police Headquarters in Northallerton on 29 October 2024, she received a ‘Resuscitation Certificate of the Society’.

It was presented to her by Countess Charlotte Peel, the Deputy Lieutenant to North Yorkshire, and Deputy Chief Constable Scott Bisset (pictured below) of North Yorkshire Police.

PC Alngohuro said: “It is truly humbling to be recognised in this way and I was proud to use my CPR training to support the ambulance service.

“We did everything we could to revive the patient who sadly died in hospital. My thoughts remain with her loved ones.”