Officers Killed in The Line of Duty
See also: List of British police officers killed in the line of dutyThe Police Roll of Honour Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty. The Police Memorial Trust since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials to some of those officers.
The following officers of Merseyside Police are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime, since the turn of the 20th century:
- PC Samuel Ballance, 1911 (died after operations to treat injuries sustained in earlier riot)
- Sgt George Anderson, 1913 (died from injuries sustained when attacked by hostile crowd)
- PC Thomas Ashcroft Grundy, 1914 (collapsed and died after an arrest)
- PC PC Adam Mather, 1915 (collapsed and died after the violent arrest of two suspects)
- PC Richard Haig Little, 1933 (committed suicide after suffering head injuries in an assault)
- PC Benjamin Drinkwater, 1935 (while searching for suspects, died when a roof collapsed)
- War Reserve PC Joseph Pickering, 1942 (fatally injured during an arrest)
- PC Ronald Brown, 1962 (fell through roof while searching for suspected burglar)
- PC Raymond Davenport, 1981 (fatally injured when dragged by a stolen car while attempting to arrest the driver; posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
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