Thames Valley Police - Officers Killed in The Line of Duty

Officers Killed in The Line of Duty

See also: List of British police officers killed in the line of duty

The 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 Thames Valley 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 Roger Brereton, 1987 (shot in the Hungerford massacre)
  • WPC Joanne Mary Cochran, 1984 (fatally injured when her vehicle crashed during a police pursuit)
  • DC Ian Coward QPM, 1971 (shot nine times attempting to arrest an armed suspect; posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal)
  • Insp James Roy Bradley, 1967 (run over by a suspect car at a roadblock)
  • DC Brian Moss, 1953 (fell through a roof while searching for suspects)
  • PC William John Payne, 1949 (collapsed and died after pursuing a burglar)
  • Insp Francis John East, 1944 (fatally injured when pushed off a vehicle by a suspect)

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