HERO policemen who brought a Crewe man back from the dead have been rewarded at a special ceremony.

Constables Matthew Todd and Christopher Bromley successfully performed CPR on the heart attack victim after he collapsed in his home in Oakhurst Drive and showed no signs of life.

They were awarded the Resuscitation Certificate by the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society at the Cheshire Constabulary Training Centre on Tuesday.

But Constable Bromley said the man, who had a history of heart complaints, sadly died from another attack just one week later.

"We performed first aid on him for quite a long time until the ambulance arrived and it was quite stressful," he said.

"I'm pleased to get the award, though it's tainted a little bit with that he died afterwards, but I feel confident that we did everything that we possibly could have done."

The brave bobbies raced to attend the incident on August 13 last year after hearing reports that a man had collapsed in his kitchen.

But Constable Todd was uncomfortable at receiving the award.

"I kind of feel that we shouldn't have got it. I don't go for these kind of awards and I think we were just doing our jobs," he said.

"It was really hard work and we were absolutely exhausted. Then the paramedics came and as we were walking away they shouted us to tell us we had got a pulse, so we were over the moon and it was worth the hard work."

A spokesman for Mersey Regional Ambulance Service praised them for their efforts.

"Where you have a patient in cardiac arrest it is vital to perform early resusitation attempts to give that patient any chance of survival," he said.

"After four minutes without oxygen the brain can die and resusitation is impossible. So without the early actions of these officers our paramedics would have had very little chance of saving the man."

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