Robert Nathans

Police Constable
Greater Manchester Police
Died 27 February 1999, aged 49

While on patrol in the early hours in Manchester,  he chased on foot and caught a suspected drunk driver fleeing the scene of an accident; soon after, while driving the police patrol van in Oxford Street, he collapsed and died.

Ian Leslie Toomer

Inspector
Dorset Constabulary
Died 20 April 1999

Fatally injured in a road accident while night duty Inspector during the early hours, when his unmarked police vehicle hit excess surface water, went out of control and crashed into a cottage in wet weather on the A35 Bridport to Dorchester road near Winterborne Abbas.

Jeffrey Tooley

Police Constable
Sussex Police
Died 25 April 1999, aged 26

A traffic patrol officer, he was struck by a speeding van which failed to stop, on the night of 24 April, when he was carrying out routine speed checks at Shoreham, and he died as a result of the serious head injuries he received.

A memorial stone was erected by the Police Memorial Trust at the scene on Brighton Road, Shoreham-by-Sea.

 Nigel Heathcote

Police Constable
Cheshire Constabulary
Died 7 May 1999, aged 30

Killed when his unmarked crime patrol car went out of control on a bend and crashed into a tree, while responding to an emergency call, of a burglary in progress, in the early hours at Ellesmere Port.

Stephen Jones

Police Constable
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Died 17 May 1999, aged 34

During the pursuit of a stolen vehicle on the M48 motorway near Bristol, the officer deployed a 'Stinger' spike strip in front of the vehicle to stop it but it swerved towards him as he stood on the motorway hard shoulder and he was struck and killed.

A memorial stone was erected by the Police Memorial Trust near the scene on the M48 motorway service area at Severn View.

Ian Godfrey

Police Constable
South Wales Police
Died 20 June 1999, aged 30

Killed in a road accident, while observer in a police patrol car on routine patrol in the early hours, when it was  involved in a head on collision with a taxi at Clydach village near Swansea.

Clive Barratt

Detective Constable
Suffolk Constabulary
Died 28 July 1999, aged 35

Fatally injured in a road accident when his unmarked police motorcycle collided with a tractor whilst on surveillance duty at Lowestoft.

   Raja Basharat Ahmed

Police Constable
Greater Manchester Police
Died 31 August 1999, aged 35

While on motorcycle patrol the officer was rammed by a stolen car he had stopped for a routine check at Miles Platting; his police motorcycle was deliberately shunted into a busy road junction where he was struck by a lorry and fatally injured.   

A memorial stone was erected by the Police Memorial Trust at the scene at the junction of Oldham Road and Queens Road, Manchester.

Kulwant Singh Sidhu

Police Constable
Metropolitan Police
Died 25 October 1999, aged 24

Late on the night of 24 October, he attended a call to suspects on a roof in Twickenham; in the early hours he was found in the premises, having been fatally injured by a fall through a glass skylight while pursuing the suspects.

His name was inscribed on the Roll of Honour at New Scotland Yard and a Police Memorial Trust stone erected at the scene at Mereway Road, Twickenham.

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