Name |
Rank |
Age |
Force |
Date of death |
Circumstances
|
Richard Ellerker |
PC |
42 |
North Yorkshire Police |
26 December 1993
|
Collapsed and died shortly after arresting a violent, drunk suspect[3]
|
Robert Chenery Gladwell |
PC |
37 |
Metropolitan Police |
6 January 1991
|
Died three weeks after being assaulted while carrying out an arrest[4]
|
Desmond Morgan Acreman |
PC |
33 |
Metropolitan Police |
12 February 1967 |
Accidentally run over while pursuing suspected thieves in Woolwich.[5][a]
|
Ronald Alan Addison |
PC |
24 |
Metropolitan Police |
24 January 1960 |
Collapsed and died of heart failure while pursuing suspects[6]
|
Raja Bashrat Ahmed |
PC |
35 |
Greater Manchester Police |
31 August 1999 |
Motorcycle rammed into oncoming traffic by suspect[7]
|
Jane Philippa Arbuthnot |
WPC |
22 |
Metropolitan Police |
17 December 1983 |
Killed in the Harrods bombing[8]
|
Alison Armitage |
PC |
29 |
Greater Manchester Police |
5 March 2001 |
Run over by suspect[9]
|
Jack William Avery |
WRC |
28 |
Metropolitan Police |
6 July 1940 |
Stabbed
|
Edward Alexander Barnett |
PC |
24 |
City of Glasgow Police |
4 January 1970 |
Shot during the Linwood bank robbery.
|
Clive Barratt |
DC |
35 |
Suffolk Constabulary |
28 July 1999 |
Motorcycle accident while on surveillance duty[10]
|
Andrew Barton |
Sergeant |
40 |
Northumbria Police |
15 April 1913 |
Shot[11][b]
|
Douglas Frederick Beckerson |
PC |
22 |
Metropolitan Police |
10 April 1971 |
Fell through a roof while pursuing suspect[12]
|
Robert Bentley |
Sergeant |
36 |
City of London Police |
17 December 1910 |
Shot during the Houndsditch murders
|
Sharon Beshenivsky |
PC |
38 |
West Yorkshire Police |
18 November 2005 |
Shot while responding to an armed robbery[9]
|
Brian John Bishop |
Acting sergeant |
37 |
Essex Police |
27 August 1984 |
Shot
|
Keith Henry Blakelock |
PC |
40 |
Metropolitan Police |
6 October 1985 |
Stabbed in the Broadwater Farm riot[13]
|
Fiona Bone |
PC |
32 |
Greater Manchester Police |
18 September 2012 |
Killed in gun and grenade ambush alongside PC Nicola Hughes
|
Roger Brereton |
PC |
41 |
Thames Valley Police |
19 August 1987 |
Shot in the Hungerford massacre[14]
|
Ian Nigel Broadhurst |
PC |
34 |
West Yorkshire Police |
26 December 2003 |
Shot during the Leeds police shootings[9]
|
Laurence Peter Brown |
PC |
27 |
Metropolitan Police |
28 August 1990 |
Shot[15]
|
Gareth Browning |
PC |
36 |
Thames Valley Police |
1 April 2017 |
Struck by suspect vehicle while deploying a stinger in 2013[16]
|
Dugald Campbell |
Watchman |
unknown |
Edinburgh City Police |
3 January 1812 |
Killed whilst attempting to stop a robbery during the Hogmanay riots.[17]
|
Gavin Carlton |
PC |
29 |
West Midlands Police |
19 December 1988 |
Shot while attempting to arrest armed bank robbers[18]
|
Joseph Geoffrey Carroll |
PC |
46 |
Northumbria Police |
13 April 2006 |
Traffic collision while transporting a prisoner[9]
|
Stephen Carroll |
PC |
48 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
9 March 2009 |
Shot by Republican terrorists whilst responding to 999 call.[19]
|
Adele Yvette Cashman |
DC |
30 |
Metropolitan Police |
5 November 2012 |
Collapsed while pursuing robbery suspects[20]
|
Walter Charles Choat |
PC |
34 |
City of London Police |
17 December 1910 |
Shot during the Houndsditch murders
|
Duncan Clift |
PC |
27 |
Kent Police |
22 March 1991 |
Killed off duty while trying to arrest car thief.[21]
|
Raymond Anthony Codling
|
Inspector |
49 |
Greater Manchester Police |
14 September 1989 |
Shot[22]
|
Glenn Russell Corder |
PC |
18 |
Durham Constabulary |
6 February 1980 |
Vehicle crashed during police pursuit[23]
|
Raymond Davenport |
PC |
42 |
Merseyside Police |
4 July 1981 |
Killed whilst attempting to stop a stolen vehicle[24]
|
Brian Dawson |
Sergeant |
42 |
Leicestershire Police |
1 September 1975 |
Shot during a siege in West Knighton, near Leicester. Two others were also shot dead, with the gunman later being imprisoned on charges of manslaughter.[25][26][27]
|
Ian Dibell GM |
PC |
41 |
Essex Police |
9 July 2012 |
Shot while off duty and confronting an armed man[28]
|
Edward Roy Dorney |
PC |
24 |
Metropolitan Police |
1 January 1960 |
Killed along with Police Dog Gus when hit by a train whilst pursuing burglary suspects.[29]
|
Nicholas Dumphreys |
PC |
47 |
Cumbria Police |
26 January 2020 |
Car accident caused by known fault within the N57 engine in the BMW police vehicle he was driving whilst responding to emergency call.[30][31]
|
Patrick Dunne |
PC |
44 |
Metropolitan Police |
20 October 1993 |
Fatally shot while attending domestic dispute[32]
|
Yvonne Joyce Fletcher |
WPC |
25 |
Metropolitan Police |
17 April 1984 |
Shot[33]
|
John William Fordham |
DC |
45 |
Metropolitan Police |
26 January 1985 |
Stabbed during the Brink's-Mat robbery.
|
William 'Bill' Forth |
Sergeant |
34 |
Northumbria Police |
21 March 1993 |
Beaten and stabbed to death after answering a 999 call.[34]
|
Geoffrey Fox |
PC |
41 |
Metropolitan Police |
12 August 1966 |
Shot in the Shepherd's Bush Murders, alongside Christopher Head and David Wombwell[9]
|
Lewis George Fulton |
PC |
28 |
Strathclyde Police |
17 June 1994 |
Stabbed[35][c]
|
Roger Philip Goad |
CEO |
40 |
Metropolitan Police |
25 August 1975 |
Killed by an IRA bomb
|
Glenn Thomas Goodman |
SPC |
37 |
North Yorkshire Police |
7 June 1992 |
Shot by IRA member Paul Magee during routine traffic stop[36]
|
Kevin Declan Gorman |
PC |
24 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
23 November 2008 |
Car accident whilst responding to emergency call.[19]
|
Richard Gray |
PC |
43 |
West Mercia Constabulary |
6 May 2007 |
Shot[37]
|
Thomas Green |
Sergeant |
51 |
Surrey Police |
18 February 1919 |
Died following a blow to the head with an iron bar during the Epsom riot.
|
Declan Greene |
PC |
39 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
23 November 2008 |
Car accident whilst responding to emergency call.[19]
|
Peter Guthrie |
PC |
21 |
West Midlands Police |
22 July 1972
|
Shot[38]
|
George Gutteridge |
PC |
31 |
Essex Police |
27 September 1927 |
Shot.
|
David Ian Haigh |
PC |
25 |
North Yorkshire Police |
17 June 1982 |
Shot by Barry Prudom[39]
|
Andrew Harper |
PC |
28 |
Thames Valley Police |
15 August 2019 |
Dragged by vehicle while investigating a burglary report[40]
|
Christopher Head |
DS |
30 |
Metropolitan Police |
12 August 1966 |
Shot in the Shepherd's Bush Murders alongside Geoffrey Fox and David Wombwell[9]
|
Jonathan Charles Henry |
PC |
36 |
Bedfordshire Police |
11 June 2007 |
Stabbed responding to 999 call[41]
|
Kenneth Robert Howorth |
CEO |
49 |
Metropolitan Police |
26 October 1981 |
Killed by an IRA bomb
|
Nicola Hughes |
PC |
23 |
Greater Manchester Police |
18 September 2012 |
Killed in gun and grenade ambush alongside PC Fiona Bone
|
Kenneth Thomas Irvine |
PC |
30 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
23 November 2008 |
Car accident whilst responding to emergency call.[19]
|
Andrew James |
PC |
38 |
South Wales Police |
2 August 2003 |
Accidentally run over while pursuing suspect[42][d]
|
Ieuan Griffith Jeffreys |
PC |
31 |
Merseyside Police |
4 May 1941 |
Killed investigating an unexploded bomb on aiding duty in Liverpool.[43]
|
Karpal Kaur Sandhu |
PC |
30 |
Metropolitan Police |
4 November 1973 |
Fatally injured during an arrest[44]
|
Desmond Derrick Kellam |
PC |
31 |
Wiltshire Constabulary |
3 October 1979 |
Fatally injured during an arrest[45]
|
Ronan Kerr |
PC |
25 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
2 April 2011 |
Killed by a Republican terrorist car bomb outside his home.[19]
|
John William Kew |
PC |
29 |
West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary |
11 July 1900 |
Shot[46][e]
|
Robert Kidd |
DS |
37 |
London & North Western Railway Police |
29 September 1895 |
Fatally injured during an arrest[47]
|
Alan King |
Sergeant |
41 |
Metropolitan Police |
29 November 1991 |
Stabbed while questioning a male suspected of handling stolen goods[48]
|
Nina Alexandra MacKay |
WPC |
25 |
Metropolitan Police |
24 October 1997 |
Stabbed[49]
|
Angus MacLeod MacKenzie |
A/DC |
31 |
City of Glasgow Police |
30 December 1969 |
Shot during the Linwood bank robbery
|
James Robert Bawn Magee |
PC |
27 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
23 November 2008 |
Car accident while responding to emergency call.[19]
|
Francis John Mason |
PC |
27 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary |
14 April 1988 |
Shot while off-duty, attempting to prevent an armed robbery. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.[50][51]
|
Ronan McCloskey |
PC |
25 |
Metropolitan Police |
9 May 1987 |
Struck by motor vehicle by suspected drink driver trying to escape.[52]
|
Christopher McDonald |
PC |
19 |
Nottinghamshire Police |
17 May 1978 |
Beaten[53]
|
Sidney George Miles |
PC |
42 |
Metropolitan Police |
2 November 1952 |
Shot whilst responding to a burglary
|
Hugh John Moore |
Cmdr |
64 |
City of London Police |
4 December 1993 |
Collapsed after an arrest
|
Jim Morrison |
DC |
26 |
Metropolitan Police |
13 December 1991 |
Stabbed while off-duty attempting to arrest a thief[54]
|
Andrew Carl Munn |
PC |
37 |
Leicestershire Constabulary |
15 August 2002 |
Rammed by vehicle being pursued. Same incident as PC Bryan Moore.[55]
|
Bryan Moore |
PC |
39 |
Leicestershire Constabulary |
15 August 2002 |
Rammed by vehicle being pursued. Same incident as PC Andrew Munn.[55]
|
George Bertram Mussell |
PC |
40 |
Northumberland County Constabulary |
15 April 1913 |
Shot[11][f]
|
Stephen Robin Oake |
DC |
40 |
Greater Manchester Police |
14 January 2003 |
Stabbed[9]
|
Jon Odell |
PC |
30 |
Kent Police |
19 December 2000 |
While conducting speed checks was intentionally run over by disqualified driver[56][57]
|
Keith Palmer |
PC |
48 |
Metropolitan Police |
22 March 2017 |
Stabbed during Westminster terrorist attack
|
Jim Porter |
DC |
31 |
Durham Constabulary |
4 March 1982 |
Shot in pursuit of armed robbers.[58]
|
Matt Ratana |
Sergeant |
54 |
Metropolitan Police |
25 September 2020 |
Shot while a man was being detained in a police custody centre[59][60]
|
Mandy Dawn Rayner |
WPC |
18 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary |
13 October 1982 |
Vehicle struck during police pursuit. She was the first British woman police officer to be killed in service.[61]
|
Phillipa Reynolds |
PC |
27 |
Police Service Northern Ireland |
9 February 2013 |
Killed when a stolen car hit her police car.[19]
|
Gerry Irving Richardson |
Supt |
38 |
Lancashire Constabulary |
23 August 1971 |
Shot
|
Derek Robertson |
Sergeant |
39 |
Metropolitan Police |
9 February 1994 |
Stabbed during post office robbery.[62][63]
|
Graham Saville |
Sergeant |
46 |
Nottinghamshire Police |
29 August 2023 |
Fatally injured after being struck by a train trying to reach a distressed man on the track.[g]
|
Dennis Arthur Smith |
PC |
44 |
Devon and Cornwall Police |
21 December 1973 |
Shot after high speed pursuit[64]
|
George Snipe |
PC |
29 |
Birmingham City Police |
19 July 1897 |
PC Snipe was attempting an arrest at the Star Public House in Hockley, when a mob turned upon him and his colleague PC Mead. They attempted to find shelter in the local church, but a brick thrown at them hit him on the head, with his dying in hospital 4 hours later.
|
Ernest Southern |
PC |
35 |
Lancashire Constabulary |
27 January 1962 |
Collapsed attending a violent street affray[65][h]
|
John Speed |
Sergeant |
39 |
West Yorkshire Police |
31 October 1984 |
Shot while going to aid of a colleague who had been fired on near Leeds Parish Church[66]
|
Michael Swindells |
DC |
44 |
West Midlands Police |
21 May 2004 |
Stabbed[9]
|
Barry Taylor |
Inspector |
30 |
West Yorkshire Police |
15 February 1970 |
Shot while responding to a burglary[67]
|
John Taylor |
PC |
26 |
Staffordshire Police |
23 November 1986 |
Pushed from roof while arresting burglars.[68]
|
Robert Chisholm Thomson |
ACC |
38 |
Edinburgh City Police |
16 July 1940 |
Shot[69]
|
Stephen Andrew Tibble |
PC |
21 |
Metropolitan Police |
26 February 1975 |
Shot while assisting colleague when off-duty[70][i]
|
Gary Toms |
PC |
37 |
Metropolitan Police |
11 April 2009 |
Thrown from police vehicle during pursuit[9]
|
Charles Tucker |
Sergeant |
46 |
City of London Police |
16 December 1910 |
Shot during the Houndsditch murders
|
William Frederick Tyler |
PC |
31 |
Metropolitan Police |
29 January 1909 |
Shot during the Tottenham Outrage
|
Gerald Walker |
PC |
42 |
Nottinghamshire Police |
9 January 2003 |
Run over
|
Arthur Walls |
Inspector |
44 |
Eastbourne Borough Police |
9 October 1912 |
Shot
|
Phillip John Walters |
PC |
28 |
Metropolitan Police |
18 April 1995 |
Shot
|
David Thomas Winter |
Sergeant |
31 |
North Yorkshire Police |
28 June 1982 |
Shot by Barry Prudom[39]
|
David Wombwell |
DC |
25 |
Metropolitan Police |
12 August 1966 |
Shot during the Shepherd's Bush Murders alongside Geoffrey Fox and Christopher Head[9]
|
Ian Wain Woodward |
PC |
33 |
Lancashire Police |
25 February 1987 |
Shot after challenging poacher off-duty.[71]
|
James Wright |
PC |
38 |
Manchester City Police |
20 June 1934 |
Run over[72][j]
|
David Phillips |
PC |
34 |
Merseyside Police |
5 October 2015
|
Run over whilst attempting to deploy a Stop Stick device in a pursuit [73][74][75]
|
Thomas Bishop
|
PC
|
39
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
21 September 1877
|
Fatally bludgeoned with stones by a drunken man he had warned. The incident occurred in Bere Regis following the Woodbury Hill Fair.[76]
|
Sidney George Wood
|
PC
|
27
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
26 April 1908
|
Died after crashing his bicycle on a steep hill searching for a thief
|
Thomas Biddlecombe
|
PC
|
47
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
18 December 1916
|
Whilst patrolling Thornford Road, Sherborne, he took severely ill and was taken by ambulance to Yeatman Hospital where he died.
|
Wilfred Charles Viney
|
PC
|
31
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
25 July 1930
|
Killed riding pillion in a motorcycle collision on plain clothes night patrol.
|
Sidney F. Loader
|
PC
|
40
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
8 September 1938
|
Fatally injured in a collision with a car while on cycle patrol.
|
Alfred E. Head
|
PC
|
46
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
19 October 1938
|
Fatally injured in a road collision cycling to court in bad weather.
|
Stanley Ivor Marsh
|
PC
|
24
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
9 February 1939
|
Died as a result of injuries received in 1938 when he attempted to stop a car.
|
Walter Charles Billett
|
WRC
|
61
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
5 July 1940
|
Killed in a fall from his bicycle while reporting for duty in the blackout.
|
Cecil Robert Budden
|
PC
|
27
|
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)
|
19 May 1957
|
Fatally injured in a collision with a car while on motorcycle patrol.
|
Kenneth Frederick Innell
|
Inspector
|
44
|
Dorset Police
|
13 December 1982
|
Collapsed and died during an incident on duty at Poole Quay.
|
Sean Oxford
|
SPC
|
21
|
Dorset Police
|
7 May 1992
|
Collapsed and died during warm up exercises in preparation for self defence training.
|
Stephen Wilson
|
PC
|
37
|
Dorset Police
|
16 May 1996
|
Fatally injured in a motorcycle collision while reporting for night duty.
|
Ian Leslie Toomer
|
Inspector
|
50
|
Dorset Police
|
20 April 1999
|
Killed in a road collision when his police car crashed in wet weather.
|
Ian James Morton
|
DC
|
32
|
Dorset Police
|
26 October 2008
|
Killed in a road traffic collision whilst travelling to report for duty at Bournemouth, in the early morning, when his vehicle left the road and crashed into the wall of a bungalow at Highcliffe.
|
Jonathan Mark Hicken
|
DC
|
47
|
Dorset Police
|
6 October 2019
|
Collapsed and died while travelling to duty.
|
Kulwant Sidhu
|
PC
|
24
|
Metropolitan Police
|
24 October 1999
|
Died after plunging through a glass panel on the roof of an industrial building while chasing two suspected burglars.[77]
|