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Honouring and Remembering British Police Officers who Lost their Lives in the Line of Duty ~ Lest we Forget
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The National Police Officers Roll of Honour Honouring Police Officers who have been killed, or died as a result of injuries received, in consequence of the execution of their duty and Remembering Police Officers who have otherwise died, Index to Annual Roll of Honour and Remembrance 1995-2024 We regret the following recent deaths reported in 2024 19/05/2024 - PC Jack Cummings, 27, West Yorkshire Police While driving to night duty he died suddenly from natural causes. 29/06/2024 - APS Reece Buckenham, 36, Hertfordshire Constabulary Killed in a collision of his motorcycle with a car whilst returning home from night duty. We regret the following recent deaths reported in 2023 30/01/2023 - PC Bruce Lister, 57, Hertfordshire Constabulary Found to have collapsed and died at his desk while on duty in the early hours. 27/02/2023 - PC Neil Pattinson, 47, Northumbria Police Collapsed and died suddenly whilst driving home after finishing duty. 11/04/2023 - PC Andrew Boardman, 43, West Mercia Police Collapsed and died whilst responding to an incident with paramedics. 29/06/2023 - Inspector Gareth Earp, 43, Dyfed-Powys Police Died following a two car road traffic collision while travelling home from duty. 29/08/1923 - Sergeant Graham James Saville, 46, Nottinghamshire Police Died five days after being struck by a train when rescuing a man on the railway line. 22/09/2023 - Sergeant Paul Frear, 45, West Midlands Police Died of injuries received while walking to work the day before when struck by a car. Background and
historical review of UK Police Roll of Honour The National Police Officers Roll of Honour is the original
resource for the United Kingdom's police roll of honour. Established in 1995,
with police support, as an independent research project recording the
public service and sacrifice of British police officers who lost their lives in
the line of duty since the earliest days of professional law enforcement. Created by former Metropolitan and Lancashire police officer Anthony Rae who in 1980 began compiling records of police murders in UK and British Colonial police forces. In 1983 this included all deaths on duty after three colleagues drowned in a sea rescue at Blackpool when no historic records of deaths on duty or roll of honour existed. In 2000 Anthony Rae founded the Police Roll of Honour Trust charity, providing research project results freely to the charity for the benefit of police services, families of the fallen and the public. He produced all Trust published Rolls, including several for individual police forces and other charities, until 2012 when he left for academic research study. In 2016 Anthony gained a master’s degree in history from Lancaster
University, largely based on his 35 years research into police casualties. Combining
new research with a historical review of the Roll revealed many factual
errors and omissions in historic data used in the UK police roll.
New research is addressing this in an academic manner to
update and safeguard the future integrity of the Roll.
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Page updated 25 September 2024 National Police Officers Roll of Honour Copyright (c) Anthony Rae MA 1985-2024 |