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Community police officers in Northampton and Daventry are to be given pedometers to see how many miles they walk on their patrols.
Pedometers International Limited, based in Newnham in the south of the county, has generously donated 20 pedometers, ten each for the Castle Ward Safer Community Team (SCT) in Northampton and the Daventry Rural South SCT.
Sergeant Paul Valentine, of the Castle Ward SCT, said: "I know that the Police Officers, PCSOs and Special Constables on my team walk miles on their patrols every day and I was interested in finding out just how far they walk.
"We are extremely grateful to Pedometers International for providing us with ten pedometers to -*test*-('") out just how many miles the team is clocking up."
Inspector Alex Terry, of Daventry Rural South SCT, said: "The officers on Daventry Rural South SCT walk miles around the villages they patrol every day and it will be fascinating to find out how many steps they are doing.
"We would like to thank Pedometers International, which is based on our beat, for their generous gift."
Malcolm Payne, Managing Director of Pedometers International Limited, said: "We are pleased to donate 20 pedometers as part of Northamptonshire Police’s neighbourhood policing foot patrol scheme, and I hope they are a great success."
Councillor Robin Brown, Chair of Northamptonshire County Council’s Healthy Communities Scrutiny Committee, who is a pedometer user himself, will be presenting the pedometers to the two teams this week and next.
He said: "For the last two months I have been using a pedometer, supplied by Malcolm Payne of Pedometers International, and I regularly walk three miles each morning, usually with Malcolm.
"Creating a healthier community figures high on my agenda as well as raising the profile of PCSOs, which the County Council is helping to fund, so I am pleased to be involved in handing over the pedometers to the Safer Community Teams."
· PCSO Emma Campion, of the Croyland Safer Community Team in Wellingborough, took it upon herself to wear a pedometer last month to see how far she walked during her day to day duties, and was staggered to find she walked 155 miles, or 278,306 steps, across her beat in just four weeks.
Community police officers in Northampton and Daventry are to be given pedometers to see how many miles they walk on their patrols.
Pedometers International Limited, based in Newnham in the south of the county, has generously donated 20 pedometers, ten each for the Castle Ward Safer Community Team (SCT) in Northampton and the Daventry Rural South SCT.
Sergeant Paul Valentine, of the Castle Ward SCT, said: "I know that the Police Officers, PCSOs and Special Constables on my team walk miles on their patrols every day and I was interested in finding out just how far they walk.
"We are extremely grateful to Pedometers International for providing us with ten pedometers to -*test*-('") out just how many miles the team is clocking up."
Inspector Alex Terry, of Daventry Rural South SCT, said: "The officers on Daventry Rural South SCT walk miles around the villages they patrol every day and it will be fascinating to find out how many steps they are doing.
"We would like to thank Pedometers International, which is based on our beat, for their generous gift."
Malcolm Payne, Managing Director of Pedometers International Limited, said: "We are pleased to donate 20 pedometers as part of Northamptonshire Police’s neighbourhood policing foot patrol scheme, and I hope they are a great success."
Councillor Robin Brown, Chair of Northamptonshire County Council’s Healthy Communities Scrutiny Committee, who is a pedometer user himself, will be presenting the pedometers to the two teams this week and next.
He said: "For the last two months I have been using a pedometer, supplied by Malcolm Payne of Pedometers International, and I regularly walk three miles each morning, usually with Malcolm.
"Creating a healthier community figures high on my agenda as well as raising the profile of PCSOs, which the County Council is helping to fund, so I am pleased to be involved in handing over the pedometers to the Safer Community Teams."
· PCSO Emma Campion, of the Croyland Safer Community Team in Wellingborough, took it upon herself to wear a pedometer last month to see how far she walked during her day to day duties, and was staggered to find she walked 155 miles, or 278,306 steps, across her beat in just four weeks.