page_title: West Midlands Police
section_title: Officers killed in the line of duty
hierarchical_section_title: West Midlands Police / Officers killed in the line of duty
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to PC Malcolm Walker, West Midlands Police, at Perry Barr, Birmingham, England. Inscription: "Here fell PC Malcolm Walker 4th October 2001 West Midlands Police" See file:PC Malcolm Walker memorial - 2.jpg for other side.
context_page_description: West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
  Covering an area with nearly 2.9 million inhabitants, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton and also the Black Country; the force is made up of 6,495 Police Officers. In 2014 there were 7,162 officers, 611 are from a BAME background, supported by 3,131 Police Staff, 188 Special Constables and 506 Police Community Support Officers – with these 10,884 employees, this makes it the third largest force in England and Wales behind the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police; and the fifth-largest force in the United Kingdom after Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland.
  The force is currently led by Chief Constable Dave Thompson. The force area is divided into ten Local Policing Units, each being served by four core policing teams – Response, Neighbourhood, Investigation and Community Action & Priority – with the support of a number of specialist crime teams.
context_section_description: The Police Roll of Honour Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty, and since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials to some of those officers.
  The following officers of West Midlands Police and its former constabularies are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime, since the turn of the 20th century:
  1901: PC Charles Phillip Gunter. Fatally injured by thrown brick while attempting to disperse a disorderly crowd
  1925: PC Albert Willits. Shot dead while attempting to arrest three men
  1928: PC Charles William Sheppard. Beaten to death attending a disturbance
  1965: DS James Stanford QPM. Fatally stabbed; posthumously awarded Queen's Police Medal
  1975: PC David Christopher Green. Fatally stabbed during an arrest
  1984: PC Andrew Stephen Le Comte. Fell from a roof while searching for suspects
  1984: PC Colin John Hall. Collapsed attending a disturbance and died
  1988: PC Gavin Richard Carlton. Shot by armed robber during a police pursuit
  1989: PC Anthony John Salt. Fatally injured by falling on a mechanical digger after getting drunk on duty
  2001: PC Malcolm Edward Walker. Fatally injured when his motorcycle was struck during a police pursuit
  2004: DC Michael Swindells QGM. Fatally stabbed; posthumously awarded Queen's Gallantry Medal
caption: Memorial to PC Malcolm Walker at Perry Barr
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