Line of Duty Deaths
Total line of duty deaths (since 1924): 114
- Aircraft accident: 14
- Assault: 2
- Automobile accident: 29
- Drowned: 4
- Duty related illness: 2
- Fall: 4
- Gunfire: 31
- Gunfire (Accidental): 3
- Heart attack: 6
- Heat exhaustion: 1
- Motorcycle accident: 2
- Stabbed: 2
- Struck by train: 5
- Struck by vehicle: 3
- Vehicle pursuit: 2
- Vehicular assault: 4
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