{"id":37854,"date":"2025-08-01T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37854\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:25:13","slug":"police-officers-cycling-180-miles-in-honour-of-fallen-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37854\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officers cycling 180 miles in honour of fallen colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Stitt said she would be keeping PC Prior and the nine other colleagues who had died in her mind as she cycled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think if we have that at the back of our memory, the pain of sitting in a saddle for two hundred miles over the next couple of days won&#8217;t be there,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really about the people, it&#8217;s about their legacy, and it&#8217;s forever about supporting their family and their friends through the charity Care of Police Survivors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge will take the hundreds of cyclists through Worksop and Tamworth, ending with the national memorial service in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There, the wristbands will be placed on the memorial in the presence of family members and friends of officers from across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ride aims to help raise awareness of the Care of Police Survivors charity, which supports the families of police staff who have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Stitt said she would be keeping PC Prior and the nine other colleagues who had died in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-37854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}