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Sewing initiative

Left: Kit bags made by volunteers at The Blue Line Stichers and For the
Love of Scrubs. Right: Jo Spear, West Midlands detention escort officer, set
up the sewing initiative.
Thanks to kit

bag volunteers

As the pandemic continued and fears of Birmingham group of ‘sewing angels’ For the hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and
transmission within Forces grew, West Love of Scrubs, have sewn, washed, pressed, other frontline organisations in the region.
Midlands detention escort officer Jo Spear, packaged and delivered more than 5,000 kit The chair of West Midlands Police
who is based at Perry Barr, set up a group of bags for frontline officers, staff in custody Federation, Jon Nott, said: “So many of our
nimble-fingered volunteers to make kit bags and response departments and forensic and officers are out in their communities every
to allow officers to safely transport their traffic units across neighbourhood teams. day, not knowing what they may have come
uniforms. washbags, scrubs and face masks for into contact with, so these bags were a
They have also made around 16,000
“ These volunteers have put in amazing time and their uniform home to wash after a shift and
godsend for them to be able to safely take
The Blue Line Stitchers, along with the

help prevent any cross-contamination.
effort and we’re so grateful to them for

“These volunteers have put in amazing
time and effort and we’re so grateful to
providing these but also for the support they
are showing officers at a time when everything them all for providing these but also for the
support they are showing officers at a time
is still so uncertain. “ when everything is still so uncertain. I’d like
to thank them all for their generosity and
kindness.”
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