West Midlands: Off-duty police constable saves a woman’s life while walking her dog
Watch Regina Tswatswa discuss how PC Kirsti Jackson helped save her life, after she collapsed in the doorway to her first-floor flat.
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An off-duty police constable saved a woman’s life while walking her dog in the West Midlands earlier this year.
On February 12 2025, Kirsti Jackson set off for an early morning walk around the Worcestershire village where she lives with her Golden Retriever Rapha.
While passing by a local shop, Kirsti noticed two people attending to a person slumped in a doorway leading upstairs to a first-floor flat.
42-year-old Regina Tswatswa was struggling to breathe. Her husband Tendai was with her and another woman had stopped to help. The Zimbabwean couple’s one-month-old baby was upstairs in the flat asleep.
West Mercia Police say Kirsti’s instincts from 27 years as a police constable immediately kicked in and she went straight to Regina’s aid. Regina wasn’t breathing so Kirsti started performing CPR until an ambulance arrived to take her to hospital.
Kirsti said: “As I approached, I could see Regina was really struggling to breathe. Anne, the other dog walker, had already called the ambulance and they were saying to start CPR on her. We started chest compressions and thankfully she started breathing and the ambulance arrived and were able to take over.”
After a fortnight, Regina was back at home with her family having spent eight days in hospital after surgery to remove a large section of her thyroid which had been blocking her airway.
