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Police responded to a call that Atkinson was in a "manic state" and was threatening to kill his father. [64] After being tasered, Atkinson went into cardiac arrest on the way to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. [65] Unlawful killing. One police officer involved was found guilty of manslaughter and was given an eight-year prison sentence ...
"Other" lists killings while in judicial custody. Official numbers are considerably lower. 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.
The Home Office delegated the responsibility for auditing a police forces compliance with the National Crime Recording Standard to Her Majesty's Chief Inspectorate of Constabulary, later renamed Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire Rescue Service. [25] The first statistics using the new framework were published in July 2014. [24]
According to an October 2005 article in The Independent, in the preceding 12 years, 30 people had been shot dead by police. [45] Many police shootings in the UK were carried out by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) during the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1960s–1990s). During the conflict, RUC officers killed 56 people in shooting incidents ...
The Australian police forces are monitored by the Australian Institute of Criminology, which has recorded police shooting deaths since 1989. All fatal police shootings are subject to a mandatory coronial inquest. [4] A 2013 review by the Australian Institute of Criminology found that 42% of victims of fatal police shootings had a mental illness ...
Extrajudicial killings; Encounter killings by police, a euphemism used in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to describe extrajudicial killings by the police or the armed forces of suspected gangsters or terrorists in gun battles; Police brutality by country; Suicide by cop
The homicide rate in the UK was 5.2 per 100,000 in 2023 and 5.6 per 100,000 in 2024 the third highest rate in Western Europe, after Spain and France. The homicide rate in England and Wales increased 39% from the 38 year low of 3.89 per 100,000 in 2015 to a decade high of 5.23 per 100,000 in 2018.
A man wounded his ex-wife and her friend before shooting a man to death as he charged the shooter. The gunman then killed himself. [98] 15 April 1913: Bedlington, England 3 1 [n 1] 4: A man shot and killed two police officers and a woman as they came to evict him. He fled the scene and was taken into custody after being shot by a civilian. [99]