The Chief Constable is running to almost every police station and contact point in the county to say his farewells to officers and staff before he retires, and is taking the opportunity to raise money for two charities close to his heart.

Chf Cons Green said: "I have done two days this week and I'm knocking off the stations one by one. It's been broken up into manageable chunks of nine or ten miles a day, taking in two or three police stations.

"I have always tried to get around the police stations. - this seems to be a good way of doing it and raising a few bob for charity. Hopefully I will leave the job as fit as I started it!"

Covering a distance of more than 180 miles as he visits 50 police stations and contact points across the county Chf Cons Green is raising money for Care of Police Survivors (COPS) and the Christopher McDonald Memorial Fund.

COPS was founded in March 2003 by Jim McNulty, a retired police officer from Strathclyde Police, and Christine Fulton, the widow of PC Lewis Fulton who was murdered on duty in Glasgow in 1994.

COPS is a UK registered charity dedicated to helping the families of police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty, rebuild their lives. It aims to ensure that survivors have all the help they need to cope with such a tragedy, and that they remain part of the police family.

It is independent of the police service and is operated entirely by survivors caring for other survivors.

The Christopher McDonald Memorial Trust Fund was founded in 1979 in memory of Nottinghamshire PC Christopher McDonald, who was murdered in 1978 after attending a robbery at a jewellers in Worksop. He was just 19 years old.

The Memorial Fund is used to provide training and educational scholarships for regular officers to study policing methods at home or abroad and is a fitting tribute to an officer whose brave and unselfish actions were of the highest traditions of policing in Britain.

The Chief Constable wants to raise as much money as possible for these two excellent causes and is inviting people to support him.

The last day of the run is June 16. Anyone who wants to contribute online can go to the Nottinghamshire Police Constabulary website. They can also go into their local police station and give money directly at the front counter.

Alternatively, they can send a cheque, made payable to Nottinghamshire Police, to: Head of Corporate Communications, Nottinghamshire Police Force HQ, Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 8PP.