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Abraham Sutcliffe

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Constable Sutcliffe was on foot patrol duty in Failsworth when he fell into the canal near Walmsley Bridge and drowned.

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Albert Dennis Salthouse

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Detective Constable Salthouse was escorting a prisoner from Rochdale to Salford. They were travelling in a police car driven by another officer. As the vehicle was being driven over Slattocks …

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Alison Armitage

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On 5th March 2001, Constable Armitage was on duty with a colleague. They were keeping observations on a stolen vehicle, when a youth approached it, entered and started the engine. …

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Brian Palmer

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Constable Palmer was on patrol on a Velocette motor cycle when he was struck by a Ford Zephyr motor car, at the junction of Wilbraham Road and Alexandra Road South, …

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Christopher Donald Maclure

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PCSO Maclure was killed in a road traffic accident. While on bicycle patrol he sustained fatal head injuries in a collision with a wagon at a road junction in Hindley …

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David Walter Griffiths

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Constable Griffiths was on duty, en route to a driving course at Longsight Police Station when his motorcycle combination was involved in a road accident. He received fatal injuries.

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Deborah Nicholson

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Constable Nicholson was on duty in Wigan on 6th November 1980 when she collapsed and died from a viral infection of the heart.

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Edward Schofield

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Acting Sergeant Schofield was assisting at a fire at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company Goods Warehouse on Featherstall Road, Oldham. A wall of the building collapsed and fell onto …

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Frederick Victor Hines

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Constable Hines was a Mounted Police Officer. He was on mounted patrol, when his horse bolted and he was thrown from it. He received fatal injuries.

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George Frederick Baker

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Constable Baker was on duty, in plain clothes, when he arrested a man for playing ‘pitch and toss’ in Yorkshire Street, Salford. Whilst he was taking the prisoner to the …