For the past month, the Chronicle & Echo and Northants Telegraph have been working with organisations across the town and wider county to pull together a celebration of just some of the key workers and volunteers who have made a difference during lockdown.
Here we feature some of the officers and staff at Northamptonshire Police who were nominated for The Big Thank You.
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FCR Operative Craig Styles was due to represent Team UK at this years Invictus Games, which were due to be held in the Netherlands in May. Instead, he and his colleagues in the Force Control Room answered around 16,000 999 calls and more than 33,000 101 calls during April and May.
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During unprecedented times which has seen the emergency services having to deal with the additional strain of the Covid-19 pandemic, Northamptonshire Police welcomed its biggest intake of new starters into the Force Control Room for a number of years, when 15 FCR Operatives started their 12-week training with the Force on April 14.
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Police Community Support Officers, Dot Wilson-Townsend and Craig Matthews from the Northampton Neighbourhood Policing Team, helped give Maclain an 11th birthday to remember as she was one of many children across the county celebrating her special day during the lockdown.
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The Northamptonshire Police Op Talla command team, which has helped implement all the government guidelines to help protect the public and Force, keeping us safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. From back left Assistant Chief Constable Simon Blatchly, Inspector Mark Holland, Sergeant Alasdair Fraser, Chief Inspector Vaughan Clarke and Superintendent Elliot Foskett. Front: Inspector Sara-Louise Parrott, Name Name, Name Name, Sergeant Eleanor Baird and Superintendent Sarah Johnson.