Car Crash Line Group Provides 200 New Police Trauma Bears
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The donation to the Dorset Police Partnership, a registered charity that works with Dorset Police, has been made by Flexxilease, a division of the Verwood based Car Crash Line Group, which specialises in ‘non-fault’ accident management.... Joanna Dawson, Human Resources Director of Car Crash Line Group, handed over the new 200 cute teddy bears, called 'Bravo Bear' to PC Vivienne Bedford at the Streetwise Children’s Safety Education Centre in Bournemouth, with her sons and friends. The Dorset Police Partnership has been supplying the trauma teddies to Dorset Police’s road policing units based at Ferndown and Dorchester since 2002 with the continued sponsorship from Car Crash Line Group. Since then, more than 300 of the cute teddy bears – which come with an adoption certificate – have been given to youngsters to keep by police officers to comfort and relax the children at the scene of road traffic collisions. The latest donation of 200 teddy bears takes the total of trauma teddies ‘out on patrol’ across Dorset to more than 500. Police Constable Vivienne Bedford, of Dorset Police’s Ferndown road policing unit, said: “The children need not necessarily be injured, it may be that they are witnesses to an incident that causes distress. It is often hard to predict how drivers, passengers or pedestrians will cope with being involved in an accident and children are particularly affected. We want to do all that we can to alleviate the distress caused by collisions on our roads." The trauma bears are also used to assist road policing unit officers in any situation where they may calm children and assist police officers in their duties. The teddy bears are not given out at all road traffic collisions but they are deployed where the police officer considers it to be appropriate.” Elaine Ryan, co-ordinator of the Dorset Police Partnership charity, said: “We are very grateful for this latest donation of trauma teddies from the Group. The teddy bears play an invaluable role in comforting, calming and relaxing traumatised children in road traffic collisions and other incidents.” |
