Police Officer Deaths

211 line of duty deaths this year.

Police officer deaths. 147 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2019. Police officer paul dunn. The officer down memorial page reports 171 deaths in the line of duty.

When a police officer is killed it s not an agency that loses an officer it s an entire nation. Since 1776 there have been 24 480 known line of duty deaths in america. Police officer paul dunn dunn who served the lakeland police department in florida was killed jan.

The national law enforcement officers memorial fund counted 124 federal state local tribal and territorial officers killed. However the number of police officer killings in 2013 was the lowest in decades according to the data and the number of officer deaths due to felonious acts in 2014 was representative of what. Chris cosgriff odmp founder.

9 while driving his police issued harley davidson to work officials say. Lodd brief statistics overview. Thousands of police officers in britain are believed to have died during the course of their duties but this article includes only those who were killed as a direct result of a crime or while attempting to prevent stop or solve a specific criminal act.

147 line of duty deaths last year. This article lists british police officers killed in the line of duty since 1900. Because of our efforts this number includes 2 248 previously forgotten heroes now honored on the odmp and other local state and national memorials.

The list omits those who died in more regular. Lakeland police department fl. 42 officers were shot and killed and 52 officers were killed in traffic related incidents.