Officers Killed in The Line of Duty
See also: List of British police officers killed in the line of dutyThe Police Memorial Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty, and since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials to some of those officers.
The following officers of Staffordshire 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 William Ezra Price, 1903 (fatally injured attempting to arrest three men)
- PC Brinley James Booth, 1946 (bludgeoned to death while attempting to arrest a suspect)
- PC John David Taylor, 1986 (pushed out of a building by a suspect)
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