Cops unite for cycling fundraiser
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Superintendent Mike Richards and another Gwent officer joined hundreds in cycling across the country to increase awareness and honour police officers who've died in the line of duty.
The Police Unity Tour raises money to help families of officers who've lost their lives serving their communities.
Care of Police Survivors (COPS) provides support and access to counselling services to help family members rebuild their lives.
Setting off from Aberystwyth on Friday 26 July, the policing peloton made its way to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire over the course of three days.
On Sunday, Mike and others were greeted at the Arboretum by Chief Constable Pam Kelly, before forces and families came together for a moving memorial service.
Supt Mike Richards said:
"It was a great weekend, one where families and officers came together to pay their respects to those who went to work one day and didn't return to their families.
"Each rider wore a bracelet bearing the names of those they were honouring.
"I'm incredibly proud to have ridden in remembrance of PCs Adrian Ellis, who died in 1989, Terry Davies, who died in 1990, and, more recently, Steve Jenkins, who died in 2017."
