Pride of Australia 2018: Hero cop Arun Trevitt honoured for saving man intent on suicide
DESPITE dozens of emergency services and police negotiators, it was general duties officer Arun Trevitt who convinced Dan Price not to take his own life. Mr Price was at the ceremony where the constable received a Pride of Australia medal today.
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DESPITE dozens of emergency services and police negotiators, it was general duties officer Arun Trevitt who convinced a man not to take his own life.
The hero cop prevented 29-year-old Dan Price from taking his own life by jumping off the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2014.
Constable Trevitt convinced Mr Price that life was worth living, and now the two men are close friends.
“I sat down on the railing and was about to jump 55m, obviously would not have survived. He extended his hand to me and told me it didn’t matter what I was going through, what the troubles were, the help was there and I could get through it,” survivor Dan Price said.
Mr Price was one of the guests who attended the Pride of Australia 2018 awards in support of Cons Trevitt today, who received a medal.
The pair have stayed in touch and become friends since the incident.
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The Pride of Australia awards honour ordinary Australians thrust by fate into life and death situations, police officers, volunteer firefighters, children who have displayed courage beyond their years, those who have raised untold thousands for charity and selfless individuals who have spent their lives in the service of others and the protection of animals.
Inspired by the Liberty Medal established by the New York Post in the wake of the September 11 attacks, Pride of Australia, championed by the Daily Telegraph, underpins the notion there is no greater measure of a society’s strength than its ability to recognise, learn from and reward its true heroes.
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