Birdman Andy Seery sets out on the 900-mile journey from London to Sroda Weilkopolska at the beginning of April and is hopeful the trek will make the pounds fly in for Help for Heroes and the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards campaign for soldiers injured in southern Afghanistan.

Now London Mayor Boris Johnson has thrown his weight behind the marathon man after meeting him at the Capital’s Assembly building to wish him the best of luck.

Johnson told PoliceOracle.com: “Andy is supporting a great cause in Help for Heroes and will raise the profile of London policing on his travels.

“I think I am in the same place as a lot of other people when it comes to the Armed Forces – they are very close to my heart. Soldiers are doing a difficult job in demanding circumstances and they deserve our full support.”

Seery (43) – who is sponsored by PoliceOracle.com plus sister websites MoDOracle.com and Uniformdating.com – hatched the idea to raise cash for wounded soldiers while he was recovering from surgery.

He picked Poland as his destination after working with the Eastern European country’s police following the arrest of a man wanted on an international warrant.

The Wandsworth-based officer, who is known as the Mad Cop and is being trained by Coldstream Guards troops, said police officers had great respect for soldiers and were fully behind those wounded on the front lines of Afghanistan.

“The British Army doesn’t muck about when it comes to getting you in shape and I’ve been treated very much as one of the boys,” Seery said with a smile.

“There is a big affinity between the troops and the police and I know that Help for Heroes is a charity that they would want to support,” he concluded.

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