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Pierre · 19-09-2012, 17:12

Just a quick google, comes up with this wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_line_of_duty

Remembering that it's a wiki page so don't expect to be 100% accurate, but good enough for this forum.

Since 1900, amongst other causes:

approx 24 police have been killed by being stabbed

Approx 71 police have been killed by being shot (not including PSNI)

and approx 21 have been killed in police car pursuits.

so in 112 years 96 police have been shot or stabbed.

If you look at this site:
http://www.citizensreportuk.org/repo...-firearms.html

From 2005 the police have shot and killed 20 civillians, and of those 20 civillians 8 either had no weapon on them or had an imitation weapon.

Not such a good strike rate.

and that's only the last 7 years.

19-09-2012, 17:12	#79
Pierre Permanently Banned Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: floating in the ether Posts: 13,332	Re: 2 Police Officers shot and killed in Manchester Just a quick google, comes up with this wiki page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_line_of_duty Remembering that it's a wiki page so don't expect to be 100% accurate, but good enough for this forum. Since 1900, amongst other causes: approx 24 police have been killed by being stabbed Approx 71 police have been killed by being shot (not including PSNI) and approx 21 have been killed in police car pursuits. so in 112 years 96 police have been shot or stabbed. If you look at this site: http://www.citizensreportuk.org/repo...-firearms.html From 2005 the police have shot and killed 20 civillians, and of those 20 civillians 8 either had no weapon on them or had an imitation weapon. Not such a good strike rate. and that's only the last 7 years.