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Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage. Think carefully before securing other debts against your home Our Federation reps and officials are keen noon or night, and I became needy and I wanted to write formally to place on
to offer help, advice and support to all emotional (which is not like me). record my gratitude and also to
members. George often talked me down when I highlight the performance of George
It is always satisfying to find out that went off the scale of potential outcomes, McDonnell in assisting me over the last
they have been able to make a difference. George was open, honest and upfront all the three years.
Here are some messages of thanks we time and I genuinely feel at times I would not Without regurgitating the details, I
have received in recent months. have survived the horrendous process was subject of a bogus internal
altogether. complaint that revealed significant
In November 2018 I was served misconduct We, as police officers, are very quick to cultural and behavioural issues from
forms (for which I am not proud) which scowl and criticise when things go wrong and within West Midlands Police in late
culminated in me attending a four-day so I felt it was pertinent to express the first 2016.
conduct hearing. The sanction awarded was a class service I received from George as a Fed Not only did George support me
final written warning. rep, a police officer but, most importantly, a through this process, but he also kept
After what I can only describe as 11 and a human being. with me during the aftermath which has
half months of hell, I am now out the other I have expressed to George that in the resulted in the Force paying a settlement
side and starting to move on, rebuilding both future if I can help in any way with policing of compensation. It required tenacity,
my personal and professional life. matters then please use me as a point of patience and the capacity to understand
The investigation itself was sensitive from contact (I appreciate there are **WITHHELD** the complexities of the case, as well as
the off, as it involved other officers. Due to the Fed reps for this…) there is also the fact if ever the courage to be resolute to resist the
nature of the allegations I had little confidence the opportunity arose to poach George for power of the organisation. Yet, in
in my Police Federation branch and so I turned **WITHHELD** Police Federation, I would be addition to this, George also showed
to another branch for support. My interview front of the queue. basic kindness and attentiveness.
was listed for January 2019 and unfortunately George, you are not only a life-saver, you While such effusive praise may seem
my Fed rep was taken ill and I was left in dire kept the state of my mental health intact. overstated, it is not. The salient reason
straits. My then Fed rep offered an alternative You are an asset to West Midlands Police. for this is that George did so in a quiet
**WITHHELD* or George McDonnell from West Thank you. but stoic manner. He treated the case,
Midlands Police Federation. From a Federation member from another which was complex, as a learning
I opted for George. I cold-called George a force, details witheld. experience and it is this open-
week prior to interview, in what I can only mindedness that drove the momentum
describe as a ‘heightened frenzy’. I was in On hearing the Federation has donated towards a successful conclusion. I hope
sheer panic mode as I was in genuine fear of £2,500 to the fund-raising appeal for the he can take this forward in the case of
losing my job; a job I had been 100 per cent Motor Neurone Disease Association and other events. I also hope you can
committed to since 2001. Primrose Hospice in support of ACC Chris continue to use the lessons of what has
From the offset, George kept me grounded, Johnson: endured from this along with him to
listened to me and calmed me down, which Wow!!! You have surpassed all of our represent your members in a way which
was no mean feat. I was hysterical and very expectations. Thank you all so much. does not allow the shortcomings of
emotional. DS Trudy Gittins, who is co-ordinating more WMP to overrule the virtues and values
Throughout the whole episode, I wanted than 300 runners who are taking part in the we all had when we joined.
to use the word ‘journey’ but it was more of a Liverpool Rock n Roll Marathon events next Please pass on once more my
trauma than a journey, George was remarkable May. gratitude to George, a real asset to the
and prodigious. George was on the phone, The Federation is also giving all runners a Federation.
text or email whenever I needed him, morning, specially designed water bottle for the event. Federation member, details withheld.

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