Derbyshire police donate materials to make face shields for King's Mill maternity unit

The CSI unit, based in Ripley, donated acetate sheets, which are used to collect footwear marks at crime scenes.

Belper based company Forty Five Degrees Design and Print were then able to make the protective face visors, and hassalready made 8,000 since last Tuesday (April 7)

In each pack there is one headband with ten acetate sheets – they are washable so key workers can get two uses out of each sheet.

The visors have already been sent to Kings Mill Hospital’s maternity ward, and teams across Derbyshire that need them

The company are now aiming to make 18,000 in total to donate.

Dean Bradshaw, director of Forty Five degrees Design and Print said: “We started with an aim to make and donate 1000 visors to the NHS, we then increased this to 2,500 and then 5,000. However with support from our customers, friends and the community, we have now well and truly surpassed this.

"We now pledge to make more than 18,000 visors supplied with comfortable headbands to be sent out to help the NHS, care homes, and other key workers.

“I’d like to say a huge thanks for all the donations we have had so far and continue to receive to help us, the sense of community is just fantastic and we will not stop until this is over.”

Crime scene investigator Zoe Parnell, who organised the donation, said: “We originally saw Dean’s appeal on Facebook, and really wanted to be a part of the wonderful thing he is doing.

"We have plenty of acetate and arranged for some packs to be taken to Dean to trial.

"He sent us a picture of the finished visors and said our sheets worked really well, so our colleagues at Derby were able to donate some more.

"We are so happy to have been able to help.”