An ex-police officer who lost her childhood dream job after injury felt “discarded”, she has said in a renewed call for recognition.

Jane Notley said her employer thought of her as a “financial hazard”, after a car thief put a vehicle into reverse and hit her four times.

She spoke outside Parliament alongside other former emergency service crew who have been hurt at work.

They have called for an honours scheme to recognise police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other personnel who have had to leave their jobs as a result of injury.

Ms Notley told the PA news agency she became a constable in Manchester in 1979.

She was on duty when she was injured 10 years later.

“We’d been looking for a guy that’d been stealing cars,” Ms Notley said.

“I identified where he was. I pulled m

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