CIS Security’s Executive Chairman, Carl Palmer found himself on a helipad above the 17th floor of The Royal London Hospital as he marked the launch of a fund-raising partnership between the London’s Air Ambulance Charity and CIS.
The company, which holds security services contracts for high profile buildings around the city, is planning a schedule of activities, culminating in Palmer venturing on the Clipper around-the-world sailing race.
On the top floor of The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, sit the headquarters of the London’s Air Ambulance, the charity that delivers a 24/7 advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London. Inside its corridor hangs an incident whiteboard, on which notes are hand-written about the incidents of the previous days. Among them, road traffic collisions, stabbings and people who have fallen from great heights. This is the reality of the working day for the London’s Air Ambulance Team, who rely on just one helicopter to deploy its trauma team to the most urgent incidents. London’s Air Ambulance heavily relies on charitable donations.
CIS Security reports that many of its officers have experience of being on the front line in these situations in challenging places such as hospitals and public protests. London’s Air Ambulance recently released figures for National Air Ambulance Week in September, showing that they were called to 282 shootings and stabbings in the first eight months of 2014. This is the third biggest category of incidents after road traffic collisions and falls from height. Carl Palmer, Executive Chairman of CIS, chose the Air Ambulance as CIS’s ongoing charity partner. As well as organising fundraising activities within the company, Carl has been selected to take part in the round-the-world Clipper Race and has chosen to use his participation in the event to promote and fund-raise for the Air Ambulance. Anyone emailing him will get a 10 month “Out of Office” notification as he circumnavigates the globe.
Palmer, who will need to work on his discomfort with heights if he is to be scaling clipper masts in the swells of the world’s oceans, was photographed by celebrity and reportage photographer Neale Haynes for the launch of the charity partnership. Haynes, who has shot portraits for the likes of Richard Branson, Boris Johnson and Simon Cowell, gave his time to help generate awareness for the Air Ambulance.
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