Ballymena officers reunited with baby Benedyct after a roadside birth

Constables Campbell and Lavery of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were reunited with baby Benedyct this week, BBC News reported on November 6. On October 9 they were on a routine traffic operation on Raceview Road in Ballymena at about 3:30 a.m., in rain and cold, when the baby's father ran toward them. By the time they reached the car, the mother had already given birth in the back seat. The only wrap the officers had on hand was a high-visibility jacket from the police car. They put it around the baby and the mother and waited for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service. Campbell said the mother did the hard work. Lavery, who is a father, kept checking that the baby had cried. This week both officers held Benedyct again. Campbell said it was good to see that everybody was doing well. The BBC account does not give the parents' names, or the officers' first names.