Tim Banbury – for saving a woman from drowning in a heavy sea

Allan Smith – for rescuing a small child swept out to sea on an inflatable toy

PS Laura Blamire – for rescuing an armed assailant who was being attacked by an angry crowd

Christopher Chavez-Cronin – for rescuing a man who became stuck on rocks in a fast flowing river

PS Paul Evans – as above

PCSO William Knight – as above

PC Joan Ollerenshaw – as above

PC Christen Clark – for saving an inebriated man who ran out into heavy dual carriageway traffic

PC name withheld – for rescuing a dangerously suicidal man from the River Thames

PC name withheld – as above

Jeffrey (Jeff) Davies – for rescuing 3 people from a house destroyed by a gas explosion

Stephen Lewis – as above

Cameron Nation – as above

Kevin O’Sullivan – as above

Leighton Williams – as above

Cadet LCpl Benjamin Duncalf (16) – for pulling a woman off live railway lines before an approaching train

Benjamin Hobden (16)– as above

Harvey Slater (17) – as above

Cadet Cpl Alfie Smith (16) – as above

Name withheld – for saving a am from drowning in the River Thames

James Watts – for rescuing a group of children who had been swept out to sea during Storm Ellen