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On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
Two men approached and opened fire. Caldwell fled, but was hit and fell, with the gunmen continuing to fire at him. According to police, the children fled in "sheer terror". [7] The gunmen fled in a small car, which was later found burnt out, outside Omagh by police. [8] A member of the public administered first aid.
The shootings were the first British military fatalities in Northern Ireland since 1997. Two days later, the Continuity IRA shot dead Stephen Carroll a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer; the first Northern Ireland police officer to be killed by paramilitaries since 1998. [5]
Vehicle struck during police pursuit. She was the first British woman police officer to be killed in service. [66] Phillipa Reynolds: PC: 27: Police Service Northern Ireland: 9 February 2013 Killed when a stolen car hit her police car. [18] Gerry Richardson: Supt: 38: Lancashire Constabulary: 23 August 1971 Shot Derek Robertson: Sergeant: 39 ...
Ronan Kerr was a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer killed by a booby-trap car bomb planted outside his home on 2 April 2011 at Highfield Close, just off the Gortin Road (the B48), near Killyclogher on the northern outskirts of Omagh in County Tyrone. [1]
Amy Clarke, solicitor on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, told a misconduct panel sitting in central London on Monday: “Whilst these two officers are on the scene and interacting with Mr ...
A “monumental” data breach has exposed the names and rank of all 10,000 serving police officers in Northern Ireland, with the body representing the force warning of “incalculable damage ...
The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland is the third-highest paid police officer in the UK (after the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police). [21] The current chief constable is Jon Boutcher , who was appointed on an interim basis after the resignation of Simon Bryne in September 2023 and successful in being officially ...