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Police force Result of police action Description Ruling Usman Khan: 29 November 2019 London City of London Police and Metropolitan Police: Direct Khan stabbed five people – two of whom later died – in the vicinity of London Bridge. He was wearing a fake explosive vest, and was shot 11 times by police, dying at the scene. [33] [34] Lawful ...
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 ...
Official numbers are considerably lower. Official 2018 statistics show only 46 deaths in police custody and 24 deaths of people in police/judicial remand and an additional 21 civilian killed during police operations for a total of 91 nationally. See Table 16A and 16B.4 of Official Govt. of India publication: Crime in India 2018 [48] [49] Australia
Pages in category "British police officers killed in the line of duty" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[4] [5] Conversely, it was praised as one of the most professional police forces in the world by British security forces. [6] During the Troubles, 319 RUC officers were killed and almost 9,000 injured in paramilitary assassinations or attacks, mostly by the IRA, which made the RUC the most dangerous police force in the world in which to serve ...
On 22 July 2004, a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on the site, performed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Michael Winner, and officers from the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police, representing the two forces with the highest number of officers killed in the line of duty. [3]
West Midlands Police, one of Britain's biggest police forces which serves the second city of Birmingham, reduced its X posts by around 95% in annual terms in that period.
Steve Biko is widely believed to have been killed by police as a result of anti-apartheid demonstrations in South Africa. [8] 1981: three people were killed by plastic bullets fired by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland during the 1981 Irish hunger strike protests, [9] [10] and many others were badly injured.