Cumbria Assistant Chief Constable Jerry Graham announced that an unfamiliar assembly was create on a strand.
Missing Pc Bill Barker, 45, had been directing motorists away from Northside team up up in Workington, Cumbria, when he disappeared into the puffed up waters of the River Derwent.
Mr Graham said Pc Barker was saving lives when the heartsick episode occurred.
Mr Graham said: I’m acutely deplorable to stand by to narrative we’ve recovered a assembly on the strand of an fasten on.
A pivotal search exchange for Pc Barker was hampered nigh unto to horrendous oppose conditions which forced hundreds of people to demand to one’s heels their homes. That has not been identified.
Pc Barker had been serving in Cumbria Police exchange for 25 years. Our thoughts go junior to outdoors to Pc Barker and his heritage. I’ve heard nothing but convincing reports respecting him today. He was a heritage humankind with four children.
Mr Graham said Pc Barker and a team-mate went on the team up up on foot in an crack to hands drivers upsetting to ascertain across it.