A POLICE officer is looking for good citizens across the region willing to be locked up in cells for a night.

The volunteers will be helping out another emergency service by their efforts.

Andy Wills, a sergeant at Guisborough, east Cleveland, is organising the sponsored stay in the disused cells at Loftus police station in a bid to raise enough money to buy a motorbike for the ambulance service.

Rather than the further punishments people normally receive after spending a night in the police cells, Sgt Wills will be treating all his prisoners to a full English cooked breakfast.

Sgt Wills and his colleagues believe a motorbike would help all the emergency services covering the rural east Cleveland and A171 Guisborough to Whitby road in reaching accidents quicker.

He said: "They are multi-functional and can cut through traffic quicker and stabilise patients and can reach more remote locations easier."

So far, enough people have volunteered to spend the night locked away to raise almost £3,000, but the motorbike is going to cost about £8,500.

Sgt Wills is still desperately on the prowl for more people to lock up, and if anyone wants to volunteer, they can call him at Guisborough police station on (01642) 302019