SHE was a fun-loving, outgoing young woman in the prime of her life. And importantly doing a job she loved. No one becomes a police officer by chance. They do it because they are drawn to it to protect the innocent, to apprehend the guilty and in doing so to serve us all. Adele Cashman wore her police uniform with pride. You had only to look at her photo of her to see that. Her death at just 30 years old came as she was doing her duty, chasing a suspected thief. It was sudden, unexpected, tragic and unjust. It has robbed the police of a respected and committed officer. Someone who had, in her family's words "a fierce sense of right and wrong". Surely the most important attribute any police officer could possess. Whilst her death is a terrible loss to the police it is, of course, worse for her family. They all loved her and they have lost a daughter, a sister and a friend. Adele was born in this city and fittingly it was here that family, friends and colleagues gathered to bid her farewell. A farewell that came many years too soon. Perhaps the words from the song performed by the Metropolitan Police Choir at her memorial service best sum her up: "You raise me up... to more than I can be." Bristol Evening Post 2012