Police paid tribute last night to colleague Timothy Herbert ? the Barbadian PC who died last week while getting medical treatment in Baltimore.

Officers remembered a warm and funny family man with a knack for getting on with people.

Close friend Sergeant Clive Brown said: ?Timothy Herbert was one of a kind.

?He was the type of person you would meet and after five minutes you would be as comfortable as if you had known him all your life.

?He knew people from Somerset to St. George?s and got along with youngsters. He held no grudges. He was a good-natured troublemaker ? he would trouble everybody in a joking sort of way. Everybody knew him.

?So many people have been crying and shocked at the news.

?He will definitely be missed by his colleagues.?

Originally a mason, PC Herbert, 44, joined the force full time in 1995 after joining the reserves five years earlier and was due to take his sergeant?s exams this weekend after spending most of his career at Hamilton Police station.

But he died of heart failure at Johns Hopkins hospital last Friday after visiting for a check-up.

PC Jarion Richardson remembers PC Herbert who tutored him when he joined the force.

?If Timmy didn?t know you, it would only take about ten minutes until he knew you very well.

He was the friendliest God damned guy on the planet.?

The funeral is at Hamilton Cathedral on Saturday at 2 p.m. Out of respect the George Duckett Memorial Shield rugby game has been shifted from Saturday to Sunday.

Pc Herbert leaves a wife, 17-year-old son and three step daughters and a granddaughter.