Hero Midland cops who put their lives on the line

1 Sgt Ron Price turns hero to save baby Alexei's life at Wolverhampton home

Sgt Ron Price, of Wolverhampton Police, saved the life of eight-month-old Alexei Kandare by helping to resuscitate her when she suffered a fit at her home in Penn Wood Court, Merry Hill.

Sgt Price sprang into action when Alexei's panicked family banged on his door calling for help.

Helped by a passer-by, Sgt Price phoned paramedics, who talked him through what he had to do. Sgt Price managed to get Alexei breathing before paramedics arrived to take her to hospital.

After three days in hospital in Stoke, Alexei was allowed to return home with her mother and six-year-old sister Ellie.

Sgt Price has since been handed resuscitation certificate from the Royal Humane Society for his outstanding work

The officer, who has been with the force for almost 20 years, then organised a police escort to get her to New Cross Hospital as quickly as possible.

2 Sgt Jon King shot in eye as air gun fired in Staffordshire

A police sergeant was shot in the eye when an air weapon was fired during a visit to a house in Rugeley.

Father-of-four Sergeant Jon King was among officers called to Wat Tyler Close in Rugeley by paramedics who were asking for help under the Mental Health Act.

He was left blind in one eye as a result of the shooting on October 19 last year while he was on duty – but has put what happened to him down as 'one of those things'.

He also revealed he is the second serving police officer in his family to be shot – his brother Geoff King was hit while working in Wolverhampton back in 2006.

Since the shooting, Sgt King has been keeping a video diary to update his followers on his surgery and recovery:

3 Wolverhampton Pc Geoff King almost killed after shot three times by gun fanatic

Wolverhampton policeman Geoff King, and brother of Jon King (above), was almost killed when he was shot three times by a criminal with a fascination for guns.

Pc King and colleague Pc Karl Ansell spotted Bailey lurking outside Bromford Rise flats, off the Penn Road, late on November 11, 2006.

Bailey, who is said to have connections to a city drugs and gun gang, fled and Pc King chased after him. He waited for Pc King before pointing the gun at the officer's head and pulling the trigger three times.

Pc King described that Bailey looked "disappointed" when the first bullet missed. A second bullet grazed his shoulder, while a third tore through his upper chest.

Marcus Bailey, aged 25, was later convicted of attempted murder on a unanimous verdict.

4 Birmingham Pc Adam Koch stabbed in frenzied attack at mosque

Pc Adam Koch was stabbed multiple times during the attack at Madrassa Qasim Ul Uloom mosque, in Small Heath, Birmingham in June 2013.

The attack, launched by knifeman Mohamoud Elmi, came about because the congregation was 'praying too loudly'.

Pc Adam Koch attended the scene and tried to wrestle him to the ground but was stabbed repeatedly by the Somalian national with a commando-style knife.

The West Midlands Police officer suffered multiple stab wounds but still bravely managed to disarm the knifeman.

Elmi was found not guilty following a trial after a jury ruled he was insane. He was then sentenced to be detained in a mental unit indefinitely.

5 Pc Pete McGinn crushed against lamp-post after trying to stop getaway car

Pc Pete McGinn suffered catastrophic crush injuries while tackling career criminal Carl Anderson, aged 51, on June 7, 2013.

The brave bobby was pinned against a lamppost as he clung to the drivers door of blue Honda Stream as Anderson fled from the scene.

The 45-year-old was left lying in the road in Erdington, Birmingham with multiple fractures to his legs and pelvis.

Fearing the worst he even asked colleagues to tell his family he loved them as they administered first aid.

But thanks to their life saving actions and medics who rushed him into a six-hour operation to pin his shattered body together PC McGinn survived.

Burglar Carl Anderson, from Osbourne Close in Aston, was jailed for 12 years after admitting wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

And, last but by no means least...

6 Police dog Pride finds teenage hostage in cellar of Bilston store

Back in March 2009, then two-year-old German Shepherd Pride helped officers find a teenage girl who had been kidnapped, bound and gagged in a secret dungeon in Bilston.

At the time, he and Pc Adrian Sheargold were asked to search the cellar of a Bilston music shop as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl.

After two fruitless searches at the shop, officers gave Pride a chance to take the lead. Almost immediately, Pride started barking at a brick wall in the cellar, which led to the discovery of the missing teenager.

It was later discovered her kindnapper was an Elvis impersonator by the name of Tony Boden, who had snatched and imprisoned the girl beneath his music shop.

The victim was captured after going to Boden's Soundmasters music shop in Bilston High Street where duct tape was put over her mouth, her mobile phone was disabled to ensure she could not call for help, and she was frog-marched to the cellar.

She was then bound hand and foot and locked in the dark in a makeshift 5ft by 4ft dungeon.

Boden even built a satin-lined coffin to put the victim in but did not use it during her ordeal. It was later found in the shop by police.

The girl's "jailer" was 20-year-old Sarah Marshall, who had reportedly had a secret affair with Boden.

Marshall from The Crescent in Bilston, admitted false imprisonment and was today given a three-year supervision order and told to live at a Probation Service-approved address.

Boden, meanwhile, was given an indeterminate prison sentence for public protection.

Pride, a product of the West Midland Police's breeding scheme, retired from his glittering career on January 21 this year.