Looking Forward To National Police Memorial Day

“Those left behind are always part of the police family”, the Chair of Hampshire Police Federation has said in the lead-up to National Police Memorial Day.

National Police Memorial Day is taking place in Glasgow on Sunday 29 September, giving formal recognition to police officers who have given their all to protect others and make their communities safer places to live and work.

Around 5,000 police officers have died while on duty in the past 180 years, yet this sacrifice and exceptional dedication to duty remained largely unrecognised until relatively recently.

Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield said: “We want families to know that their loved one is never forgotten. And this event remembers not just officers who have been lost in the past year, but officers who were lost five, 10, 20 years ago. It’s such a lovely way to remember every police officer who’s lost their life in the line of duty.

“We are going up this year and and we are taking Rose, the mother of James Drew [who died in a car accident in 2009] as well as the father of Daniel Gower, a PCSO that we lost in 2022.

“The event reminds the family members left behind that they are always a part of the police family.”