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Hemant Karkare AC ( pronunciation ) (12 December 1954 – 27 November 2008) was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks after ...
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Ashok Kamte AC (23 February 1965 – 26 November 2008) was the Additional Commissioner of the Mumbai Police supervising the Eastern region. He was killed while in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. His ...
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On Monday, January 12, 1998, near the end of his shift, Deputy Kyle Wayne Dinkheller of the Laurens County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in the U.S. state of Georgia, pulled over motorist Andrew Howard Brannan ...
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Caio César Ignácio Cardoso de Melo (September 28, 1988 – September 30, 2015) was a Brazilian actor, voice actor and police officer. César provided the Brazilian Portuguese voiceover of Harry Potter (played ...
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Michéle Kiesewetter (10 October 1984 in Oberweißbach - 25 April 2007 in Heilbronn), a German police officer, was killed by neo-nazi terrorists on 25 April 2007 in Heilbronn, Germany. Her colleague was ...
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Tukaram Omble AC was an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), and a retired army man who had entered the Mumbai police. He died during the 2008 Mumbai attacks, fighting terrorists at Girgaum Chowpatty and played ...
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Paul Shabangu (born c. 1943) served as acting Prime Minister of Swaziland from 29 September 2003 to November 2003. He was appointed after the cabinet was dismissed in preparation for a general election ...
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Anton Fliegerbauer (5 March 1940 - 5 September 1972) was a West German police officer who was killed in action by Palestinian Black September terrorists during the 1972 Summer Olympics when he responded ...
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Michèle Kiesewetter (10 October 1984 in Oberweißbach – 25 April 2007 in Heilbronn), a German police officer, was killed by neo-Nazi terrorists on 25 April 2007 in Heilbronn, Germany. Her colleague was ...
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Josip Jović (21 November 1969 – 31 March 1991) was a Croatian police officer who was killed by Serb forces during the Plitvice Lakes incident. He is widely considered the first Croatian fatality of ...
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On January 23, 1991, in Garrison, Texas, police constable Darrell Lunsford pulled over a suspicious vehicle. Inside the vehicle were three men transporting marijuana from Texas to Illinois. After Lunsford ...
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Ramón Lorenzo Falcón (August 30, 1855 — November 14, 1909) was an Argentine Army officer, politician, and Chief of the Argentine Federal Police.
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Roger Gavoury (born 7 April 1911, Mello – died 31 May 1961) was Divisional Commissaire of the French National Police and Central Commissaire of Algiers, in addition to duties associated with French Morocco ...
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Sergey Vladimirovich Perets (Russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Пе́рец; 28 September 1969 — 16 August 2002) was a Russian police officer who was killed during the Second Chechen War in 2002 and was posthumously ...
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Giorgio Boris Giuliano (October 22, 1930 – July 21, 1979) was a police chief from Palermo, Sicily. He was the head of Palermo's Flying Squad. He was killed by the Sicilian Mafia while investigating heroin ...
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Stewart Graeme Guthrie, GC (22 November 1948 – 13 November 1990) of New Zealand is the most recent civilian recipient of the George Cross, the highest award for conspicuous gallantry not in the face of ...
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On 22 April 2020, a truck driver under the influence of drugs, Mohinder Singh, crashed his truck into a Porsche 911 and two police cars on the Eastern Freeway, in the suburb of Kew East, Australia, killing ...
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The murder of Lorenzo Cutugno was committed in Turin, Italy on 11 April 1978. The victim was a member of the Polizia Penitenziaria assigned to the Turin prisons, who was ambushed by the Red Brigades during ...