This list includes only those serving police officers who were killed as a direct result of a crime or while attempting to respond to, prevent, stop or solve a specific criminal act or incident. The list omits war-time deaths by enemy fire, such as the many police officers killed by air raids during the Second World War[ including 100 killed in the Metropolitan Police area.[ The list also omits the more than 300 officers of the former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) killed in paramilitary assassinations or attacks during The Troubles.
Key Rank abbreviations A/x = Acting ACC = Assistant chief constable CC = Chief constable Cmdr = Commander DC = Detective constable DS = Detective sergeant Insp = Inspector PC = Police constable SPC = Special police constable Supt = Superintendent WPC = Woman police constable WRC = War reserve constable
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