Derek Haines MBE
Derek haines a jimmies old player over 40 years ago, 66, a former superintendent with Leicestershire Police and detective chief superintendent with the Royal Cayman Islands Police, is awarded the MBE for services to community and sport on the Caribbean islands.

Derek, who completed six marathons around the world in eight months last year to help build a hospice on the islands, served with Leicestershire police for more than 30 years and was seconded to the Cayman Islands force in the 1990s.

When he retired from Leicestershire police in 1997, he chose to stay on in the islands' force.

He retired from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service in 2006 and is now head of the security and community liaison department with development company Dart Cayman Islands.

It is the third time he has featured in the Birthday Honours, having received the Queen's Police Medal in 2005 for gallantry and the Colonial Police Medal for counter-narcotics work in the Caribbean, in 1999.

His efforts have seen $1,390,000 raised for Cayman HospiceCare, to help the charity build an inpatient and operations hospice.

The company he works for has donated a similar amount in land and services.

Derek was nominated for the honour for his community work and his influence in sport in the Cayman Isalnds where he has served as president of the islands' rugby union for 14 years and was formerly director of junior rugby.

He said:"When I first came here it was a game mainly played by ex-pats, but now young Caymanians are going to North Carolina for Olympic qualifiers in the Rugby Sevens."

He added: "It's a community effort and I feel the medal belongs to everybody, I just get the privilege of wearing it."Derek in the Leicester Mercury