Woman Police Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 19 June 1944, aged 33

Fatally injured in an explosion, while on duty during an enemy air attack, when Tottenham Court Road Police Station was struck by a flying bomb.

Catherine Phyllis Godfrey

 

Police Woman

Leicestershire Constabulary

Died 3 May 1947, aged 31

While cycling to Hinckley Police Station in a severe gale late at night on 23 April, having been recalled to duty to deal with a violent female prisoner, she collided with a fallen tree and sustained fatal injuries.

Myra Waller

 

Police Woman

Lancashire Constabulary

Died 20 June 1965, aged 24

Fatally injured on 19 June, while attending an emergency call to the scene of a road accident, when her traffic patrol car was in collision with another car at Halton near Lancaster.

June Randell

 

Police Woman

Hull City Police

Died 10 March 1966, aged 21

 Woman Police Constable

Died 21 December 1968, aged 19

Died from a fractured skull sustained when the car in which she was a passenger collided with a stationary lorry at Prestwich while returning to Rochdale from the police training college at Bruche.

 Woman Police Constable

Died 19 October 1970, aged 24

Died as a result of injuries received when the police patrol car in which she was an observer was involved in an accident while answering an emergency alarm call.

 Police Cadet

Died 13 March 1974, aged 18

While she was with a supervised party of cadets canoeing on the River Chelmer, her canoe capsized and despite attempts to save her she was drowned.

 Woman Reserve Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 16 March 1975, aged 26

While on foot patrol with a colleague in Bangor, Co. Down, they were passing licensed premises when a canister bomb, placed by terrorists on the window sill, exploded killing her almost immediately.

 Woman Reserve Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 21 November 1975, aged 24

Died from serious injuries received on 1 November while she was assisting other officers at the scene of a road traffic accident in Londonderry when they were struck by a speeding car.

Woman Reserve Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 2 June 1976, aged 19

While on foot patrol duty with a colleague in Londonderry late at night on 23 May they were both shot at point blank range in a terrorist attack and she received gunshot wounds from which she later died.

Woman Police Constable

Died 29 August 1976, aged 21

While on mobile patrol in Sunderland the police car she was driving skidded and crashed through a fence, a section of which broke through the car windscreen and pierced her skull killing her instantly.

Woman Police Sergeant

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police

Died 15 May 1978, aged 40

Killed in a road accident along with four colleagues and 25 injured when the coach taking them to the Police Federation Conference at Blackpool suffered a brake failure and overturned near Wakefield.

Woman Police Constable

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police

Died 15 May 1978, aged 41

Killed in a road accident along with four colleagues and 25 injured when the coach taking them to the Police Federation Conference at Blackpool suffered a brake failure and overturned near Wakefield.

 Woman Police Constable

Died 7 November 1978, aged 27

Killed with two other officers and a Ministry of Transport Examiner, when their traffic patrol car collided with one lorry and was thrown into the path of another on the opposite carriageway of the A74 near Johnstonebridge.

Police Cadet

Died 8 February 1980, aged 16

While with a supervised party of Cadets during an adventure training exercise at Foreland Point, North Devon, she was swept off the rocks and despite attempts at rescue was washed out to sea and drowned.

Woman Constable

Died 28 October 1980, aged 21

While a member of a mobile patrol in the early hours, together with four colleagues she was fatally injured in a road traffic accident when their police landrover collided with a lorry in Belfast.

 Woman Constable

Died 25 July 1981, aged 21

While with other officers operating a vehicle checkpoint in the early hours near Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry she was struck and fatally injured by one of two vehicles which failed to stop at the checkpoint.

 Woman Reserve Constable

Died 23 April 1982, aged 29

Fatally injured together with two colleagues when their police vehicle went out of control and struck a bridge wall while responding to an emergency call concerning an assault at a pub in Armagh City.

 Woman Police Constable

Hertfordshire Constabulary

Died 13 October 1982, aged 18

Killed when the police patrol car, in which she was the observer and which was stationary waiting to assist colleagues, was deliberately rammed by the driver of a vehicle being pursued by police at Royston late at night.

Woman Police Constable

Lancashire Constabulary

Died 5 January 1983, aged 23

While working together with several other officers, attempting to rescue a drowning man from a very rough sea at Blackpool, she and two colleagues were swept away by the waves and all three and the man were drowned.

Woman Police Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 17 December 1983, aged 22

While investigating a reported terrorist car bomb and evacuating the area outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, the device exploded and she was killed together with a Sergeant and an Inspector who died later.

Woman Police Constable

Thames Valley Police

Died 30 March 1984, aged 20

Fatally injured while she was the observer in a patrol car when her driver swerved to avoid an obstruction in the road and the vehicle overturned during an early morning vehicle pursuit at Oxford.

 Woman Police Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 17 April 1984, aged 25

Whilst policing a political demonstration outside a foreign embassy in St. James's Square, she was shot in the back and fatally wounded when automatic weapons were fired at the crowd from inside the embassy building.

Woman Detective Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 28 February 1985, aged 29

Killed together with eight other officers by the explosion of a mortar bomb when Newry RUC Station came under heavy mortar attack by terrorists and the canteen was destroyed by a direct hit.

Woman Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 28 February 1985, aged 27

Killed together with eight other officers by the explosion of a mortar bomb when Newry RUC Station came under heavy mortar attack by terrorists and the canteen was destroyed by a direct hit.

Woman Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 20 May 1985, aged 21

Killed together with three colleagues in their police patrol car by the explosion of a terrorist bomb placed in a trailer near the road where they were escorting a security vehicle at Killeen, Newry.

Woman Police Constable

Avon and Somerset Constabulary

Died 27 November 1986, aged 20

Killed when her police patrol car went out of control on a bend and crashed into a tree while pursuing a vehicle which had failed to stop in the early hours at Speedwell.

Woman Police Constable

Died 6 June 1989, aged 23

Died from serious injuries sustained in the early hours when she lost control of her patrol car which crashed on a bend in wet weather while driving a prisoner and escort at Harpenden.

Woman Police Constable

Died 12 November 1989, aged 23

Fatally injured when the police patrol car in which she was the observer left the road and collided with a tree near Brentwood while responding to disturbances during the early hours.

Constable

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Died 28 March 1992, aged 34

While on mobile patrol late at night in Newry, Co Down,  a horizontally fired mortar bomb struck her police vehicle and she received injuries from which she died the following day.

Woman Police Constable

South Yorkshire Police

Died 7 February 1994, aged 25

Drowned when the patrol car in which she was observer in the early hours skidded off an icy road and plunged upside down into the river at Wath upon Dearne near Barnsley trapping her inside.

 Police Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 26 October 1994, aged 42

Collapsed and died from heart failure, having just completed an exercise,  while undergoing a Baton Training course at the Peel Centre, Hendon.

 

Woman Police Constable

South Yorkshire Police

Died 10 May 1995, aged 28

Died from injuries received in the early hours of 8 May, when her traffic patrol car left the road and hit a wall, during the high speed pursuit of a suspected stolen car at Cudworth near Barnsley.

 

Police Constable

Strathclyde Police

Died 30 May 1995, aged 28

Killed in a road accident, while undergoing instruction on a standard traffic motorcycle training course, when she lost control of her machine on a bend.

Woman Police Constable

Hampshire Constabulary

Died 13 March 1996, aged 29

Fatally injured, while the observer in a police area car responding to an alarm call in the early hours of the morning,  when the driver lost control of the vehicle avoiding an object in the road and collided with a brick wall at Winchester.

Inspector

Died 28 April 1996, aged 35

Fatally injured in a road traffic accident when she was forced to swerve to avoid an oncoming car and was thrown from her vehicle, while serving with the British Police Contingent in Bosnia.

Police Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 24 October 1997, aged 25

As a member of a Territorial Support Group she forced entry to a dwelling flat at Stratford, in order to arrest a violent and deranged wanted man, whereupon she was stabbed in the chest and fatally wounded.

Police Constable

Strathclyde Police

Died 7 August 2000, aged 30

Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to work from her home in Stewarton.

 Police Constable

Died 5 March 2001, aged 29

While on plain clothes duty keeping observation on a stolen car in Oldham, a suspect returned to the vehicle and, in attempting to stop him driving away she went to the rear of the car, which reversed and knocked her down then ran over her causing multiple injuries from which she later died.

Police Constable

Died 4 February 2004, aged 26

The officer finished an extended tour of night duty, after dealing with a prisoner at Taunton, and was travelling home, when her motorcycle was in collision with a vehicle at Ashill and she sustained fatal head injuries.

Catherine Sutcliffe

 

Police Constable

Died 20 August 2004, aged 34

Collapsed on 8th August while attending a routine incident on duty and was hospitalised until her subsequent death from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Cheryl Rosemarie Lloyd

 

Police Constable

Died 18 June 2005, aged 42

Killed when the patrol car she was driving collided with a stationary lorry while she was attending an urgent call at Ipswich.

Constable

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Died 10 July 2005, aged 41

Fatally injured whilst driving in a convoy of armoured police Land Rovers en route to a public order operation when her vehicle went out of control and crashed on the road between Moneymore and Desertmartin, Co. Londonderry.

Police Constable

West Yorkshire Police

Died 18 November 2005, aged 38

While responding with a colleague to a personal attack alarm at a travel agency in Bradford, the officers were confronted by three armed robbers leaving the premises, shots were fired and she was hit in the chest and killed and her colleague injured.

Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty at Duns when her car was in collision with a van near Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders.

Killed in a car crash when her vehicle was in collision with a car near Market Deeping whilst she was driving home after her first full night duty at Spalding.