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1997
Lest We Forget
Kenneth Andrew Brodie
Police Constable
Dumfries
and Galloway Constabulary
Died 8 January 1997, aged 34
Killed in a road traffic accident when his police patrol car was involved in a three-car collision, in which a married couple were also killed, while on mobile patrol on the A76 near Mennock, Dumfries-shire.
Michael Gamble
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 27
February 1997, aged 24
Fatally injured in a road traffic accident late on the night of 26 February, when his police patrol car collided with tree on the Kesh-Enniskillen Road at Buninubber, Killadeas, Co. Fermanagh, and died from his injuries the next day.
Giles Fraser Drinkall
Police Constable
Leicestershire
Constabulary
Died 2 April 1997, aged 35
Killed in a road accident, while returning to police headquarters from Royal escort duties at Hinckley, when he lost control of his police motorcycle and crashed on the M69 motorway.
Darren Robert Bradshaw
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 9
May 1997, aged 24
While the officer was off duty with friends in a bar in Dunbar Street, Belfast, late at night, nationalist gunmen entered the premises and one of them shot the constable in the back; as the officer staggered two more shots were fired and he died at the scene from his injuries.
Keith Maddison
Police Constable
Durham Constabulary
Died
21 May 1997, aged 46
Following a five mile pursuit of a stolen horse box across Co. Durham at night, two men abandoned the vehicle at Howden-le-Wear; the traffic patrol officer then began chasing the two suspects on foot but soon afterwards he collapsed and died.
Robert Gregory Taylor
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 1
June 1997, aged 41
While off duty with friends in a public house in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, he was recognised as a police officer by local loyalists and jostled and abused. When he left the bar in the early hours he was attacked by a waiting mob and brutally beaten and kicked to death.
Roland John Graham
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died
16 June 1997, aged 34
David Andrew Johnston
Reserve Constable (Full Time)
Royal
Ulster Constabulary
Died 16 June 1997, aged 30
While on foot patrol together in Church Walk, Lurgan, two republican gunmen approached the officers from behind and opened fire at point blank range, both officers were shot in the head and killed.
Mark Ian Flood
Police Constable
Metropolitan
Police
Died 29 July 1997, aged 32
Killed in a road accident, while reporting for early duty at Addington Police Station, when his motorcycle collided head-on with a lorry at Hurst Green.
Terry Finch
Constable
Ministry of Defence
Police
Died 20 August 1997, aged 49
Whilst escorting a Ministry of Defence convoy, with the Special Escort Group, he sustained fatal injuries when his motorcycle was in collision with a lorry near Burghfield, Berkshire.
Stephen Philip Armstrong
Police Sergeant
Durham Constabulary
Died 23
August 1997, aged 35
Fatally injured in a road accident on the A194m Washington by-pass, while returning home after finishing duty in the early hours, when his vehicle collided with a stray horse.
Ian Jessett
Police Constable
Metropolitan
Police
Died 25 August 1997, aged 39
Killed when his motorcycle was in collision with a lorry, while on route to Clapham police station to report for aiding duty at the Notting Hill Carnival.
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.
Posthumously
awarded a Commissioner's High Commendation for Bravery, her name inscribed on
the Roll of Honour at New Scotland Yard, and a memorial stone erected
by
the Police Memorial Trust at
the scene at Arthingworth Street, E15.
John Shevlin
Police Constable
Merseyside
Police
Died 10 November 1997, aged 36
Seriously injured on 21 October 1995, while responding on an emergency call to a road accident in Huyton, when his police vehicle went out of control and hit a garden wall. As a result of his injuries he remained in a coma until his death two years later.
Lest We Forget