List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty
Killed by criminal act
Since 1 September 1886.

List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty

Section Title: Killed by criminal act
Table Section Text: Since 1 September 1886.

Badge	Rank	Name	Age	Honours	Date	Circumstance	Location	Notes

91	Constable	Neil McLeod	44	30 July 1890	Gumdigger Henry Funcke was removed from a steamer and had his rifle confiscated. He became angry and drew a concealed pistol, firing several shots at the departing ship, one of which struck McLeod in the chest	Dargaville (Mangawhare Wharf)

674	Sergeant	John Patrick Hackett McGuire	42	14 April 1910	Shot in the stomach during a manhunt, and died four days later. John Joseph Powelka was acquitted of murder but received 21 cumulative years for seven charges of burglary	Palmerston North

963	Constable	John Doyle	35	5 February 1913	Died in hospital two days after being assaulted by two men in the Albion Hotel	Shannon

2030	Constable	Vivian Dudding	32	6 October 1919	Attending a domestic dispute, he was shot in the head and died an hour later	Thorndon, Wellington

1764	Constable	James Dorgan	37	27 August 1921	Shot investigating a break-in, the killer was never found	Timaru

1582	Constable	Thomas Heeps	50	21 October 1934	Died in Waikato Hospital after being shot twice by Henare Hona, the subject of a manhunt	Morrinsville (nearby)

2209	Sergeant	William Cooper	43	8 October 1941	Shot by farmer Stanley Graham, who they were attempting to apprehend after he refused to surrender firearms	Hokitika (nearby)

3526	Constable	Frederick William Jordan	26

3039	Constable	Percy Campbell Tulloch	35

2364	Constable	Edward Mark Best	42

36	Traffic Officer	John Kehoe	24	31 January 1949	Shot several times by Richard Angus McGill, who he had stopped for speeding with his motorcycle	Whakatane

2691	Sergeant	William Shore Hughes	48	27 May 1951	Shot dead during a domestic dispute by Noema Raana Rika	Otaki

Detective Inspector	Wallace Chalmers	46	QPM	6 January 1963	Shot dead by Victor George Wasmuth while attending a shooting	Waitakere Ranges

2839	Detective Sergeant	Neville Wilson Power	25	QPM

4321	Constable	James Thomas Richardson	24	3 February 1963	Both shot while sitting in police car, after responding to a domestic dispute	Lower Hutt

3809	Constable	Brian Leslie Schultz	21

4699	Constable	Donald Richard Stokes	23	15 August 1966	Beaten by escaping prisoners at Dunedin police station, died later in hospital	Dunedin

2950	Sergeant	Gilbert Peter Arcus	44	4 February 1970	Assaulted by a mentally disturbed woman he was trying to placate, fell and struck his head on the ground, dying from the injury an hour later	Tauranga

5052	Constable	Peter William Murphy	21	25 September 1976	Shot attending a break-in at a sports shop	Invercargill

1395	Traffic Officer	Barry Yorston Gibson	32	13 June 1977	Assaulted by a motorist and died in hospital from head injuries	New Plymouth

1351	Traffic Officer	Robin James Dudding	44	GM	7 April 1986	Taken hostage and later shot dead by Ross Kameta	Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty

4601	Senior Constable	Peter Morris Umbers	35	GM	27 May 1990	Bashed to death with his own baton by Richard Thomas Lakich, who he had stopped	Ranfurly (nearby)

5024	Sergeant	Stewart Guthrie	41	GC	13 November 1990	Shot in the head after encountering and firing a warning shot at spree killer David Gray during the Aramoana massacre	Aramoana

D717	Constable	Glenn Arthur McKibben	25	21 April 1996	Shot standing beside his police car by former soldier Terence Thompson, who was later shot dead by Armed Offenders Squad.	Flaxmere, Hastings

G083	Constable	Lester Murray Stretch	38	27 May 1999	Bashed to death by Carlos Namana, a burglar he had followed from a break-in	Mangakino

F272	Detective Constable	Duncan Taylor	39	NZBM	5 July 2002	Died instantly after being shot by teenager Daniel Luff, his partner escaped wounded	Rongotea, Manawatu

G092	Sergeant	Derek Wootton	52	11 July 2008	Struck by a carjacked vehicle with a hostage fleeing police while laying road spikes	Titahi Bay

I417	Sergeant	Don Wilkinson	47	11 September 2008	Disturbed while attempting to secretly fix a tracking device to a car, received several shots from a .22 air rifle, one fatally through the chest	Mangere

5766	Senior Constable	Leonard Snee	53	7 May 2009	Shot executing a cannabis search warrant by former territorial soldier Jan Molenaar, other officers and a member of the public received gunshot wounds	Napier

Sentence(s)

Leonard Snee is the 29th member of the New Zealand Police to be killed in the line of duty.

final_sentence: Leonard Snee is the 29th member of the New Zealand Police to be killed in the line of duty.