West Yorkshire 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.

Since 1900 the following officers of West Yorkshire Police are listed by the Trust as having died during the course of their duties in attempting to prevent, stop or solve a criminal act:

  • PC Mark Goodlad, 2011 (struck by a HGV on the M1 whilst assisting the driver of a broken down vehicle)
  • PC Conal Daood Hills, 2006 (fatally injured when his vehicle crashed during a police pursuit)
  • PC Sharon Beshenivsky, 2005 (shot dead attending a robbery) She previously had been a PCSO
  • PC Ian Nigel Broadhurst, 2003 (shot dead by David Bieber)
  • Sgt John Richard Speed, 1984 (shot dead; posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
  • Sgt Michael Hawcroft, 1981 (stabbed; posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
  • Insp Barry John Taylor, 1970 (shot dead; posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
  • PC Charles John Skevington, 1955 (fatally injured when his vehicle crashed during a police pursuit)
  • DI Duncan Alexander Fraser and PC Arthur Gordon Jagger, 1951 (both shot dead attempting to arrest a suspected burglar)
  • Sgt Naylor Whitaker, 1949 (died from injuries sustained in an assault in 1940)
  • PC Duncan Alexander Fraser, 1946 (shot dead)
  • PC Arthur Joseph Webb, 1923 (died from injuries sustained in a violent assault in 1920)
  • PC Alfred Haddon Hudson, 1910 (fatally injured attending a disturbance)
  • PC Albert Smith, 1907 (died from an illness contracted after being assaulted during an arrest)

  • Otley Police Station

  • Millgarth Police Station in Leeds. The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper was conducted from here.

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