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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/policeman-slams-77-rescue-delays.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Pc Glen Hesketh was at the scene of the bomb blast that hit a number 30 bus in Tavistock Square" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-policeman-slams-77-rescue-delays.jpg" alt="Pc Glen Hesketh was at the scene of the bomb blast that hit a number 30 bus in Tavistock Square"/></a></p>
<p>A policeman has hit out at other officers&#8217; delays in helping people injured in the 7/7 bus bombing.</p>
<p>Pc Glen Hesketh said members of the emergency services were &#8220;not paid to be wrapped in cotton wool&#8221; as he described how he clambered onto the mangled bus to reach trapped victims.</p>
<p>The explosives sniffer dog handler cut his hands &#8220;to ribbons&#8221; trying to pull aside the wreckage to get to horrifically wounded passengers, the inquest into the July 7 2005 attacks on London heard.</p>
<p>He reached the scene of the bomb blast that hit a number 30 bus in Tavistock Square minutes after it went off. Other officers were already there but nobody was on the bus assisting the injured, the inquest heard.</p>
<p>Pc Hesketh said in a statement: &#8220;Police officers were putting up cordon tape, and I remember swearing at an inspector or sergeant for not doing anything to help people on the bus.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;Everyone at something as traumatic as that acts differently and has their own concerns. It&#8217;s purely my opinion, but if somebody can be helped, they need to be helped and immediately.</p>
<p>&#8220;And when I went past where you could see into the bus, it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered what anyone says, what concerns there are of a secondary device. We&#8217;re not paid to be wrapped in cotton wool, we have to get in there and help people.&#8221;</p>
<p>The coroner, Lady Justice Hallett, told him: &#8220;You were doing a dangerous job in July 2005.</p>
<p>&#8220;By the sounds of it you are still doing a dangerous job, trying to prevent the kind of tragedy with which sadly we are concerned.</p>
<p>&#8220;You commended the bravery of the firefighters with whom you worked. May I commend your bravery and the fact that you took so much to heart that your number one priority was to save lives.&#8221;</p>
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