Mansfield Wildlife Rescue thank police for support

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00:00 I'm PC Gardner from Mansfield Police Station. Today we're at Mansfield Wildlife Rescue in

00:04 Plesley Woodhouse. Over the last year with the centre I've been trying to do as much as I can

00:08 to help them with goods, tools, donations from different businesses, even down to

00:15 emptying some of the seized goods at the police station that would otherwise have been thrown away

00:20 so that they can sell, raffle, getting other organisations involved as well from

00:28 Smith Toys, Tesco's, Argos, you name it, they have areas where they can fund into local communities

00:36 and this is just an amazing place that they can do it with. It's made a huge difference, I mean when

00:41 we're struggling the police have helped collect things for us, they've come to some of us events

00:46 so obviously they're getting involved with the community as well which is bringing more supporting

00:50 and you know we can't thank them enough for the help that they've given us over the last year.

00:57 It's just getting our awareness out there and it's making the community feel safer because they know

01:01 that there's a presence. Neighbourhood policing, it's about people, it's not just all about what

01:07 people see on TV, it's about helping the local community, it's about seeing things like this,

01:12 the local hubs that help people and what also we can get out of it as well by speaking to people,

01:17 learning things, they can voice their opinions of what's happening and to be honest with you

01:24 it's quite a nice experience to help somewhere like this. The benefits that we have as a police

01:29 organisation is the people that we speak to which is part of neighbourhood policing and we speak to

01:34 a wide range of people at this centre about the local area. They get to tell me things that are

01:41 happening, I get to find out things that are happening from different sources and it's a

01:47 win-win situation really that we can help them and they're helping us.

01:50 you

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