“Things don’t stop happening just because it’s Christmas Day,” says senior crown prosecutor Joanne Parsons. “Many people don’t celebrate in a traditional way. Not everyone is sitting round a turkey.”
On the evening of 25 December 2014, Parsons, a solicitor, will be looking over documents to support the police if they need to keep people in custody. Residential childcare worker Nikira Greenaway spent a previous Christmas with the one child left behind at Newport children’s services. And police inspector Phil Spurgeon will be scooping up drunks on mad Friday, the last before Christmas and the busiest of the year.
These are just a few of the thousands of people working in public services and the voluntary sector this Christmas – in health and social care, for the police and criminal justice services, keeping our transport moving and helping those in need.
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