3 Nov, 2022 @ 19:00
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Rookie cop hailed a hero after saving life of four-year-old girl in Spain’s La Linea in Andalucia

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A young police trainee has been hailed a hero after his quick thinking saved the life of a four-year-old girl who had stopped breathing.

Rookie cop Ivan, 25, from Malaga, was on duty at the Local Police station in La Linea, Cadiz, when he heard a pounding on his door, Sur In English report.

When he opened the door, he was confronted by the sight of a desperate father holding the limp body of his young daughter.

“She’s unconscious and not breathing,” the distraught father said of his daughter Maria.

Realising that her life was slipping away and every second counted, Ivan tried to reopen her airways but to no response.

He then laid her on the floor and began desperate attempts at PCR to revive the child.

The actions of pumping her chest and breathing into her mouth went on for three or four agonising minutes, accompanied by an encroaching sense of hopelessness.

But all of a sudden, to the delight of the father and the assembled police officers, Maria opened her eyes and began to cough.

“I could only think about what I was doing, but I was convinced she would come round,” Ivan said afterwards.

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Local Police in Xabia, Alicante

She was rushed to a nearby hospital with a fever, where she remained under observation to determine what the cause of her episode was.

The father returned to the police station to embrace Ivan in a giant bear hug for saving his daughter’s life.

Ivan comes from a cop family, with both his father and uncle serving, one in the National Police and the other in the Local Police in Fuengirola.

The modest hero has brushed aside acclaim for his actions, declaring: “All that matters is that she gets well.” 

Walter Finch

Walter Finch, who comes from a background in video and photography, is keen on reporting on and investigating organised crime, corruption and abuse of power. He is fascinated by the nexus between politics, business and law-breaking, as well as other wider trends that affect society.
Born in London but having lived in six countries, he is well-travelled and worldly. He studied Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and earned his diploma in journalism from London's renowned News Associates during the Covid era.
He got his first break in the business working on the Foreign News desk of the Daily Mail's online arm, where he also helped out on the video desk.
He then decided to escape the confines of London and returned to Spain in 2022, having previously lived in Barcelona for many years.
He took up up a reporter role with the Olive Press Newspaper and today he is based in La Linea de la Concepcion at the heart of a global chokepoint and crucial maritime hub, where he edits the Olive Press Gibraltar edition.
He is also the deputy news editor across all editions of the newspaper.

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