National Police Memorial Day Diwrnod Coffa Cenedlaethol Yr Heddlu
National Police Memorial Day Diwrnod Coffa Cenedlaethol yr Heddlu Sunday 24 September 2017 Dydd Sul 24 Medi 2017 Ceremony held at St David’s Hall, Cardiff Cynhelir y Seremoni yn Neuadd Dewi Sant, Caerdydd Produced by The Police Federation of England and Wales St David’s Hall, Cardiff Neuadd Dewi Sant, Caerdydd National Police Memorial Day Service Gwasanaeth Cenedlaethol Dydd Coffa’r Heddlu St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 3pm Sunday 24 September 2017 Dydd Sul 24 Medi 2017 #NPMD St David’s Hall, Cardiff Neuadd Dewi Sant, Caerdydd National Police Memorial Day Service Gwasanaeth Cenedlaethol Dydd Coffa’r Heddlu St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 3pm Sunday 24 September 2017 Dydd Sul 24 Medi 2017 #NPMD 1 Canon David Wilbraham National Police Chaplain Policing is a unique role I consider more of a vocation than an occupation. It demands much of those on the frontline in all manner of ways and requires skill, expertise and real commitment to deal with the whole of life that is encountered. Issues of truth, justice, guilt, forgiveness, restitution, peace in society, protecting the most vulnerable, right/wrong, neighbourliness, are a small part of the ‘daily round’. Encountering people at their very best and most amazing often in the midst of the most tragic of circumstances is done alongside dealing with human behaviour at its most depraved, criminal and evil. Commitment, tenacity, bravery and integrity - all exercised with compassion and fairness - are the personal qualities that together with professional skills, sustain the ‘thin blue line’. Frontline personnel also serve with a willingness, should the need arise, to put themselves in the place of danger and harm to protect and serve others.
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