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Police (Casualties)

Volume 83: debated on Thursday 25 July 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were (a) murdered and (b) injured during shooting incidents with suspects in each of the last five years and in the current year to date within the Metropolitan police area.

The available information is given in the following table. Information for 1985 is not yet available.Notifiable offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used and police were victims

*

Metropolitan Police District

Number of offences

Offence currently recorded as homicide

Offences when a policeman was injured*

19805
1981†5
1982
1983†5
1984║1‡6

* May not include cases in which police officers were injured investigating offences against other persons.

† Includes one case in which the policeman was off duty.
‡ Includes one case where the firearm was used as a blunt instrument.
║ Provisional.