ROLL OF HONOUR AND REMEMBRANCE Women Police Officers who Lost their Lives in the Line of Duty LEST WE FORGET Bertha Massey Gleghorn 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 Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty, when her lightweight motorcycle was in collision with an articulated lorry which turned across her path. Carol A. Waddington Woman Police Constable Rochdale Borough Police 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. Ann Lakey Woman Police Constable Teesside Constabulary 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. Lesley Anne Beet Police Cadet Essex Constabulary Died 13 March 1974, aged 18 While with a supervised party of cadets canoeing on the River Chelmer, her canoe capsized and despite attempts to save her she was drowned. Mildred Ann Harrison 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. Margaret Cherry Campbell 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. Linda Emmeline Baggley 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. Shirley Moses Woman Police Constable Northumbria Police 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. Elizabeth Burton Woman Police Sergeant West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police Died 15 May 1978, aged 40 Lillian Sullivan Woman Police Constable West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police Died 15 May 1978, aged 41 Killed in a road accident along with three male colleagues and 25 injured when the coach taking them to the Police Federation Conference at Blackpool suffered a brake failure and overturned near Wakefield. Isabella Janet G. Harris Woman Police Constable Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary 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. Sharon Bury Police Cadet Avon and Somerset Constabulary 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. Joanne Margaret Best Woman Constable Royal Ulster Constabulary 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. Martha Doreen Elizabeth Harkness Woman Constable Royal Ulster Constabulary 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. Mabel Elizabeth Cheyne Woman Reserve Constable Royal Ulster Constabulary 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. Mandy Dawn Rayner 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. Angela Bradley 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. Jane Philippa Arbuthnot 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. Joanne Mary Cochran 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. Yvonne Joyce Fletcher 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. Ivy Winifred Kelly Woman Detective Constable Royal Ulster Constabulary Died 28 February 1985, aged 29 Rosemary Elizabeth McGookin Woman Constable Royal Ulster Constabulary Died 28 February 1985, aged 27 Killed together with seven 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. Tracy Ellen Doak 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. Deborah Leat 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. Jacqueline Ann Brown Woman Police Constable Hertfordshire Constabulary 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. Jo-Ann Jennings Woman Police Constable Essex Police 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. Colleen Linda McMurray 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. Gina Corin Rutherford 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. Gail Doreen Pirnie 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. Sandra Jane Edwards 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. Melanie Igoe 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. Philippa Jane Parish Woman Police Constable Hampshire Constabulary Died 13 March 1996, aged 29 Fatally injured, while observer in a police area car responding to an alarm call in the early hours, when the driver lost control of the vehicle avoiding an object in the road and collided with a brick wall at Winchester. Vanessa Rosemary Carroll Inspector West Midlands Police 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. Nina Alexandra MacKay 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. Jacqueline Ann Haswell 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. Alison Armitage Police Constable Greater Manchester Police 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. Sarah Jane Minskip Police Constable Avon and Somerset Constabulary 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 Margaret Sutcliffe Police Constable Lancashire Constabulary 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 Suffolk Constabulary 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. Siobhan Mary Majella McCann 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. Sharon Beshenivsky 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. Karen Balfour



Police Constable

Lothian and Borders Police

Died 5 January 2006, aged 37 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. Deborah Adele

Harman-Burton



Police Constable

West Midlands Police

Died 24 March 2006, aged 28 Killed in a road accident, whilst travelling home from night duty with another officer, when the car in which she was a passenger was involved in a collision near Kenilworth. Stacey Victoria Pyke



Police Constable

Lincolnshire Police

Died 15 January 2007, aged 20 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. Kirsty Allan



Police Constable

Fife Constabulary

Died 2 March 2007, aged 24 Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty at Oakley when her car lost control on an icy road and overturned near Dunfermline. Katie Louise Mitchell



Police Constable

Kent Police

Died 3 October 2007, aged 39 Killed in a motorcycle accident while travelling to report for day duty at Tonbridge when she lost control of her machine and was then struck by a car at Goudhurst. Dee Marie Weatherley Detective Constable Thames Valley Police Died 13 December 2008, aged 31 Killed in a road traffic collision while travelling to report for duty at Aylesbury, in the early morning, when her car was struck by another vehicle, which crossed the carriageway travelling in the opposite direction at Hoggeston. Diane Christine Donald Detective Constable

Strathclyde Police

Died 21 January 2009, aged 40 Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty in the early morning when her car left the carriageway of the M8 motorway in icy road conditions and struck a tree near Glasgow Airport. Laura Ruth Williams Police Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 19 February 2009, aged 41 Collapsed and fell unconscious while on duty at Greenwich Park Police Station, she was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of the following day, having suffered a brain haemorrhage. Karen Lynn Paterson Police Constable Cambridgeshire Constabulary Died 6 January 2012, aged 44 Died when her car was in collision with another vehicle in the early morning at Langtoft, Linclonshire, whilst returning home from night duty at Peterborough. Fiona Bone Police Constable Greater Manchester Police Died 18 September 2012, aged 32 Nicola Hughes Police Constable Greater Manchester Police Died 18 September 2012, aged 23 The two officers responded to a routine incident of a reported burglary during the late morning at Mottram; on arrival they were attacked, without warning, by a man armed with a firearm and a grenade, which he discharged and both officers were shot and fatally wounded, with Constable Bone dying at the scene and Constable Hughes a short time later in hospital. Adele Cashman Detective Constable

Metropolitan Police

Died 5 November 2012, aged 30 After responding with other Crime Squad officers to assist uniform patrols chasing suspected thieves in Belsize Park, North London, and whilst pursuing a suspect on foot she collapsed and died soon afterwards. Philippa Reynolds Constable

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Died 9 February 2013, aged 27 Killed in a road collision while on routine patrol in Londonderry during the early hours when the unmarked police car in which she was a passenger was struck by a stolen vehicle; two other officers in the police car were injured. Kirsty Nelis Constable

Police Scotland

Died 29 November 2013, aged 36 Killed together with another constable, their civilian pilot, and six persons on the ground, when their Police Air Support Unit helicopter crashed through the roof of a public house late at night in Glasgow. Sharon Garrett Detective Constable

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Died 6 June 2014, aged 48 Killed whilst returning home from duty when her car was one of five vehicles involved in a road traffic collision on the A141 at Whyton. LEST WE FORGET