The Elizabeth Emblem is a national form of recognition conferred by the monarch and awarded to the next of kin of members of the United Kingdom emergency services who are killed on duty.[1][2] It is named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.[1][2] It is the civilian equivalent of the Elizabeth Cross.[1][2]
On 9 March 2024, the introduction of the Elizabeth Emblem was announced by the government.[3]
The emblem is silver in colour and oval.[4] At the top is a Tudor Crown above the inscription 'For A Life Given In Service', surrounded by a rosemary wreath; a traditional symbol of remembrance. The name of the person commemorated is inscribed on the back.[3]
The emblem includes a pin, allowing it to be worn by a next of kin of the person it is commemorating. A miniature of the emblem will accompany it, which can be worn by the recipient at 'that person's discretion'. The emblem is not intended to be worn directly with other medals.[3]
Recipients of the Elizabeth Emblem will also receive a memorial scroll inscribed with the name of the person commemorated. A close relative who is not the next of kin, for example a parent or partner, may be eligible for an additional memorial scroll, but not the emblem.[3]
There are three criteria for a person to be eligible for an Elizabeth Emblem:[3]
This is a list of potential recipients of the Elizabeth Emblem as collated from other articles on emergency service workers who have died in the line of duty.
Name | Rank/Role | Age | Force/Service | Date of death | Circumstances |
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Graham Saville | Sgt | 46 | Nottinghamshire Police | 29 August 2023 | Fatally injured after being struck by a train trying to reach a distressed man on the track.[a] |
Matt Ratana | Sgt | 54 | Metropolitan Police | 25 September 2020 | Shot while a man was being detained in a police custody centre[5][6] |
Nicholas Dumphreys | PC | 47 | Cumbria Police | 26 January 2020 | Car accident caused by known fault within the N57 engine in the BMW police vehicle he was driving whilst responding to emergency call.[7][8] |
Jonathan Marc Hicken | DC | 47 | Dorset Police | 6 October 2019 | Collapsed and died while travelling to duty.[9] |
Andrew Harper | PC | 28 | Thames Valley Police | 15 August 2019 | Dragged by vehicle while investigating a burglary report[10] |
Gareth Browning | PC | 36 | Thames Valley Police | 1 April 2017 | Struck by suspect vehicle while deploying a stinger in 2013[11] |
Keith Palmer | PC | 48 | Metropolitan Police | 22 March 2017 | Stabbed during Westminster terrorist attack |
David Phillips | PC | 34 | Merseyside Police | 5 October 2015 | Run over whilst attempting to deploy a Stop Stick device in a pursuit [12][13][14] |
Phillipa Reynolds | PC | 27 | Police Service Northern Ireland | 9 February 2013 | Killed when a stolen car hit her police car.[15] |
Adele Yvette Cashman | DC | 30 | Metropolitan Police | 5 November 2012 | Collapsed while pursuing robbery suspects[16] |
Fiona Bone | PC | 32 | Greater Manchester Police | 18 September 2012 | Killed in gun and grenade ambush |
Nicola Hughes | PC | 23 | |||
Ian Dibell GM | PC | 41 | Essex Police | 9 July 2012 | Shot while off duty and confronting an armed man[17] |
Ronan Kerr | PC | 25 | Police Service Northern Ireland | 2 April 2011 | Killed by a Republican terrorist car bomb outside his home.[15] |
Alan Bannon | WF | 38 | Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service | 6 April 2010 | Bannon and a colleague were responding to a fire in a tower block in Southampton. Firefighters had difficulties fighting the fire and the coroner's report stated that Bannon and Shears had died after being exposed to "sudden exposure to initially intense heat from 20.38 to 20.41 and thereafter to excessive heat while dealing with a fire in a flat on the 9th floor of the high-rise tower block Shirley Towers".[18][19] |
Gary Toms | PC | 37 | Metropolitan Police | 11 April 2009 | Thrown from police vehicle during pursuit[20] |
Stephen Carroll | PC | 48 | Police Service Northern Ireland | 9 March 2009 | Shot by Republican terrorists whilst responding to 999 call.[15] |
Brian Dean | WF | 49 | West Midlands Fire Service | 3 December 2008 | Dean and his crew (Bluewatch) from Bloxwich Fire Station were returning after dealing with an overturned car incident. Dean suffered a fatal heart attack.[21] |
Kevin Declan Gorman | PC | 24 | Police Service Northern Ireland | 23 November 2008 | Car accident whilst responding to emergency call.[15] |
Declan Greene | PC | 39 | |||
James Robert Bawn Magee | PC | 27 | |||
Kenneth Thomas Irvine | PC | 30 | |||
Ian James Morton | DC | 32 | Dorset Police | 26 October 2008 | Killed in a road traffic collision whilst travelling to report for duty at Bournemouth, in the early morning, when his vehicle left the road and crashed into the wall of a bungalow at Highcliffe.[22] |
John Averis | WF | 27 | Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service | 2 November 2007 | The 2007 Warwickshire warehouse fire; A fire broke out at a vegetable packing warehouse near to Atherstone-on-Stour in Warwickshire in November 2007. Averis and two colleagues, Ashley Stephens and Darren Yates-Bradley, were not recovered for four days afterwards due to the instability of the structure after it had collapsed. A fourth colleague, Ian Reid, was pulled from the burning building alive, but died later in hospital.[23] |
Jonathan Charles Henry | PC | 36 | Bedfordshire Police | 11 June 2007 | Stabbed |
Richard Gray | PC | 43 | West Mercia Constabulary | 6 May 2007 | Shot[24] |
Joseph Geoffrey Carroll | PC | 46 | Northumbria Police | 13 April 2006 | Traffic collision while transporting a prisoner[20] |
Sharon Beshenivsky | PC | 38 | West Yorkshire Police | 18 November 2005 | Shot while responding to an armed robbery[20] |
Billy Faust | WF | 36 | London Fire Brigade | 20 July 2004 | Faust and his colleague, Adam Meere, were in the basement of a burning building in Bethnal Green, London. An inquest into their deaths later stated that fire officers had not realised the strength of the flames and that a hose had been burnt through. It was also suggested that when colleagues opened doors to vent the building, a flashover occurred and burnt the men to death.[25][26] |
Michael Swindells | DC | 44 | West Midlands Police | 21 May 2004 | Stabbed[20] |
Ian Nigel Broadhurst | PC | 34 | West Yorkshire Police | 26 December 2003 | Shot during the Leeds police shootings[20] |
Andrew James | PC | 38 | South Wales Police | 2 August 2003 | Accidentally run over while pursuing suspect[27][b] |
Andrew Edmund Clinton | WF | 53 | West Midlands Fire Service | 17 March 2003 | Clinton was working at the top of a hydraulic platform at Bournbrook Fire Station when he fell sustaining fatal injuries.[28] |
Stephen Robin Oake | DC | 40 | Greater Manchester Police | 14 January 2003 | Stabbed[20] |
Gerald Walker | PC | 42 | Nottinghamshire Police | 9 January 2003 | Run over |
Andrew Carl Munn | PC | 37 | Leicestershire Constabulary | 15 August 2002 | Rammed by vehicle being pursued.[29] |
Bryan Moore | PC | 39 | |||
Alison Armitage | PC | 29 | Greater Manchester Police | 5 March 2001 | Run over by suspect[20] |
Jon Odell | PC | 30 | Kent Police | 19 December 2000 | While conducting speed checks was intentionally run over by disqualified driver[30][31] |
Raja Bashrat Ahmed | PC | 35 | Greater Manchester Police | 31 August 1999 | Motorcycle rammed into oncoming traffic by suspect[32] |
Clive Barratt | DC | 35 | Suffolk Constabulary | 28 July 1999 | Motorcycle accident while on surveillance duty[33] |
Ian Leslie Toomer | Insp | 50 | Dorset Police | 20 April 1999 | Killed in a road collision when his police car crashed in wet weather. |
Nina Alexandra MacKay | WPC | 25 | Metropolitan Police | 24 October 1997 | Stabbed[34] |
Stephen Wilson | PC | 37 | Dorset Police | 16 May 1996 | Fatally injured in a motorcycle collision while reporting for night duty. |
Phillip John Walters | PC | 28 | Metropolitan Police | 18 April 1995 | Shot |
Lewis George Fulton | PC | 28 | Strathclyde Police | 17 June 1994 | Stabbed[35][c] |
Derek Robertson | Sgt | 39 | Metropolitan Police | 9 February 1994 | Stabbed during post office robbery.[36][37] |
Richard Ellerker | PC | 42 | North Yorkshire Police | 26 December 1993 | Collapsed and died shortly after arresting a violent, drunk suspect[38] |
Hugh John Moore | Cmdr | 64 | City of London Police | 4 December 1993 | Collapsed after an arrest |
Patrick Dunne | PC | 44 | Metropolitan Police | 20 October 1993 | Fatally shot while attending domestic dispute[39] |
John Davies | RF | 34 | Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service | 6 September 1993 | During a fire at the Sun Valley poultry processing plant in Hereford, a ceiling collapsed and trapped Davies and his colleague Dave Morris. Both died at the scene.[40][41] |
William 'Bill' Forth | PS | 34 | Northumbria Police | 21 March 1993 | Beaten and stabbed to death after answering a 999 call.[42] |
Glenn Thomas Goodman | SPC | 37 | North Yorkshire Police | 7 June 1992 | Shot by IRA member Paul Magee during routine traffic stop[43] |
Sean Oxford | SPC | 21 | Dorset Police | 7 May 1992 | Collapsed and died during warm up exercises in preparation for self defence training. |
Alan King | PS | 41 | Metropolitan Police | 29 November 1991 | Stabbed while questioning a male suspected of handling stolen goods[44] |
Duncan Clift | PC | 27 | Kent Police | 22 March 1991 | Killed off duty while trying to arrest car thief.[45] |
Robert Chenery Gladwell | PC | 37 | Metropolitan Police | 6 January 1991 | Died three weeks after being assaulted while carrying out an arrest[46] |
Laurence Peter Brown | PC | 27 | Metropolitan Police | 28 August 1990 | Shot[47] |
Raymond Anthony Codling | Insp | 49 | Greater Manchester Police | 14 September 1989 | Shot[48] |
Gavin Carlton | PC | 29 | West Midlands Police | 19 December 1988 | Shot while attempting to arrest armed bank robbers[49] |
Francis John Mason | PC | 27 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 14 April 1988 | Shot while off-duty, attempting to prevent an armed robbery. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.[50][51] |
Ernest David 'Dave' Gregory | RF | 46 | Dorset Fire and Rescue Service | 16 October 1987 | Gregory and his colleague, Graham White were killed instantly when a tree fell on the front of the cab of their fire appliance, whilst driving between incidents on the night of the 1987 Great Storm[52][53] |
Roger Brereton | PC | 41 | Thames Valley Police | 19 August 1987 | Shot in the Hungerford massacre[54] |
Ronan McCloskey | PC | 25 | Metropolitan Police | 9 May 1987 | Struck by motor vehicle by suspected drink driver trying to escape.[55] |
Ian Wain Woodward | PC | 33 | Lancashire Police | 25 February 1987 | Shot after challenging poacher off-duty.[56] |
John Taylor | PC | 26 | Staffordshire Police | 23 November 1986 | Pushed from roof while arresting burglars.[57] |
Keith Henry Blakelock | PC | 40 | Metropolitan Police | 6 October 1985 | Stabbed in the Broadwater Farm riot[58] |
John William Fordham | DC | 45 | Metropolitan Police | 26 January 1985 | Stabbed during the Brink's-Mat robbery. |
John Speed | PS | 39 | West Yorkshire Police | 31 October 1984 | Shot while going to aid of a colleague who had been fired on near Leeds Parish Church[59] |
Brian John Bishop | A/Sgt | 37 | Essex Police | 27 August 1984 | Shot |
Yvonne Joyce Fletcher | WPC | 25 | Metropolitan Police | 17 April 1984 | Shot[60] |
Jane Philippa Arbuthnot | WPC | 22 | Metropolitan Police | 17 December 1983 | Killed in the Harrods bombing[61] |
William Ross Hunt | DS | 56 | Strathclyde Police | 5 June 1983 | Fatally stabbed and beaten when members of a suspect’s family attacked him and other officers with knives and other weapons as he attempted to arrest the man for serious assault. |
Kenneth Frederick Innell | Insp | 44 | Dorset Police | 13 December 1982 | Collapsed and died during an incident on duty at Poole Quay. |
Mandy Dawn Rayner | WPC | 18 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 13 October 1982 | Vehicle struck during police pursuit. She was the first British woman police officer to be killed in service.[62] |
John Donley | WF | 26 | County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service | 5 September 1982 | Donley and his colleague, Tony Hall, were killed when their fire engine overturned en route to a chimney fire in South Hetton.[63] |
Robin John Gleeson | WF | 29 | West Midlands Fire Service | 19 August 1982 | Gleeson sustained fatal head injuries whilst fighting a fire in a paper factory in Walsall.[64] |
Jim Porter | DC | 31 | Durham Constabulary | 4 March 1982 | Shot in pursuit of armed robbers.[65] |
David Thomas Winter | Sgt | 31 | North Yorkshire Police | 28 June 1982 | Shot by Barry Prudom[66] |
David Ian Haigh | PC | 25 | North Yorkshire Police | 17 June 1982 | |
Kenneth Robert Howorth | CEO | 49 | Metropolitan Police | 26 October 1981 | Killed by an IRA bomb |
Raymond Davenport | PC | 42 | Merseyside Police | 4 July 1981 | Killed whilst attempting to stop a stolen vehicle[67] |
Glenn Russell Corder | PC | 18 | Durham Constabulary | 6 February 1980 | Vehicle crashed during police pursuit[68] |
Desmond Derrick Kellam | PC | 31 | Wiltshire Constabulary | 3 October 1979 | Fatally injured during an arrest[69] |
Christopher McDonald | PC | 19 | Nottinghamshire Police | 17 May 1978 | Beaten[70] |
David Barnes | - | - | Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service | 15 September 1977 | Barnes was engaged in fighting a fire in Elgar Road, Reading, when the building collapsed onto him.[71] |
Neil Goldsmith | - | - | Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service | 15 September 1977 | Goldsmith was engaged in fighting a fire in Elgar Road, Reading when the building collapsed onto his colleague (David Barnes). When Goldmsmith went in to try and rescue Barnes, the building suffered a total collapse and killed both men.[72] |
Ian Robert Collier | WF | 22 | West Midlands Fire Service | 29 May 1977 | Collier was fighting a fire on a railway embankment in Solihull. He was struck by a railway locomotive and suffered fatal injuries. He had only been a firefighter for five months.[73] |
Hylton Brearley | - | 37 | West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service | 9 December 1976 | Brearley was killed in Netherton when the appliance that he was in overturned on ice whilst en route to a callout.[74] |
George William Barrett | WF | 43 | West Midlands Fire Service | 2 December 1976 | Barrett was killed in a vehicle accident whilst en route to a fire inspection.[75] |
Brian Dawson | Sgt | 42 | Leicestershire Police | 1 September 1975 | Shot during a siege in West Knighton, near Leicester. Two others were also shot dead, with the gunman later being imprisoned on charges of manslaughter.[76][77][78] |
Roger Philip Goad | CEO | 40 | Metropolitan Police | 25 August 1975 | Killed by an IRA bomb |
Stephen Andrew Tibble | PC | 21 | Metropolitan Police | 26 February 1975 | Shot while assisting colleague when off-duty[79][d] |
Robert Bell | WF | 29 | Kent Fire and Rescue Service | 8 November 1974 | Bell and another firefighter, David Holley, were investigating smoke in a building full of latex mattresses on HMS Pembroke in Chatham Dockyard. It was believed that a flashover occurred and killed the men outright, but it was not known exactly what caused the flashover that resulted in their deaths. Investigations by the Fire Research Station later determined that a smouldering cigarette could cause latex to decompose at low temperatures and allow flammable fumes to accumulate. It was assumed that whilst searching for the seat of the fire, the two firemen turned over one of the smouldering mattresses which allowed an explosive mix of air and flammable vapour to mix and thereby cause an explosion.[80][81] |
Dennis Arthur Smith | PC | 44 | Devon and Cornwall Police | 21 December 1973 | Shot after high speed pursuit[82] |
Karpal Kaur Sandhu | PC | 30 | Metropolitan Police | 4 November 1973 | Fatally injured during an arrest[83] |
Derek George William Andrews | WF | 32 | City of Birmingham Fire Brigade | 25 August 1972 | Andrews was fighting a factory fire in Tenby street when the building collapsed onto him. He received fatal injuries.[84] |
Alastair Crofts | WF | 31 | Glasgow Fire Service | 25 August 1972 | The Kilbirnie Street fire; Bermingham and five others had gone into a burning building to recover a missing fireman at a cash and carry warehouse on Kilbirnie Street in Glasgow. Fireman Rook was listed as missing and as the six-man team were trying to recover him, an extreme flashover event that caused the temperature to be instantly raised to over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) occurred and all seven died.[85][86] |
Allan Finlay | WF | 20 | |||
Iain Bermingham | WF | 29 | |||
Peter Guthrie | PC | 21 | West Midlands Police | 22 July 1972 | Shot[87] |
Gerry Irving Richardson | Supt | 38 | Lancashire Constabulary | 23 August 1971 | Shot |
Douglas Frederick Beckerson | PC | 22 | Metropolitan Police | 10 April 1971 | Fell through a roof while pursuing suspect[88] |
Barry Taylor | Insp | 30 | West Yorkshire Police | 15 February 1970 | Shot while responding to a burglary[89] |
Edward Alexander Barnett | PC | 24 | City of Glasgow Police | 4 January 1970 | Shot during the Linwood bank robbery. |
Angus MacLeod MacKenzie | A/DC | 31 | City of Glasgow Police | 30 December 1969 | |
John Appleby | - | - | London Fire Brigade | 13 July 1969 | The Dudgeon's Wharf Explosion; the London Fire Brigade had been called out to a tank farm on the Isle of Dogs in East London when one of the tanks being demolished caught fire. Whilst five firemen were atop the structure trying to pour water in from the top to cool the tank, a worker on the site used a cutting torch to remove an inspection plate at the base of the tank. A spark from the torch ignited the air/gas mix and the tank exploded killing the five firemen and the civilian torch-cutter.[90] |
Michael Gamble | - | - | |||
Paul Carvosso | - | - | |||
Terence Breen | - | - | |||
Edmund Burt | - | 23[e] | Western Fire Brigade | 7 October 1968 | Firefighters from the Western Fire Brigade (later Strathclyde), had brought a fire at a papermill in Linwood under control when a wall collapsed and buried four people. Burt died from injuries sustained by falling masonry.[91][92] |
Desmond Morgan Acreman | PC | 33 | Metropolitan Police | 12 February 1967 | Accidentally run over while pursuing suspected thieves in Woolwich.[93][f] |
Geoffrey Fox | PC | 41 | Metropolitan Police | 12 August 1966 | Shot in the Shepherd's Bush Murders[20] |
Christopher Head | DS | 30 | |||
David Wombwell | DC | 25 | |||
Gordon Robert Dix | WF | 52 | Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service | 16 February 1966 | Dix and two colleagues died when they were overcome by smoke at a bunker on RAF Neatishead in Norfolk. The fire had been started deliberately and caused over one and half million pounds worth of damage. Because of the potential for confusion in smoke or complicated building layouts, a knotted guide line was introduced nationally after this fire to assist firefighters to identify the correct way to the exit.[94] |
Herbert James Durrant | WF | 52 | |||
Reginald Deveson | RF | 56 | Kent Fire Brigade | 11 May 1965 | Deveson was helping to put out a fire aboard a ship carrying jute and oil-cake stranded on Deal beach. He had already been at the scene for sometime when he said he was feeling unwell, by the time that a doctor had arrived on the Walmer lifeboat, Deveson had died.[95] |
J Calderwood | - | 58 | Lanarkshire Fire Brigade | 7 January 1963 | Calderwood and a colleague, McIntosh, were fighting a fire in a paint store at Colville's Steel Works in Bellshill, Mossend. An explosion ripped through the building killing McIntosh instantly; Calderwood died in hospital eight days later.[96] |
John J Buist | DO | 52 | Angus Fire Brigade | 13 April 1962 | Buist, a Divisional Officer, was killed when a bale of jute fell on him whilst tackling a fire in Dundee.[97] |
Ernest Southern | PC | 35 | Lancashire Constabulary | 27 January 1962 | Collapsed attending a violent street affray[98][g] |
Alexander Grassie | WF | - | Glasgow Fire Service | 28 March 1960 | The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War.[99] |
Alfred Dickinson | WF | - | |||
Archibald Darroch | WF | - | |||
Daniel Davidson | WF | - | |||
Christopher Boyle | WF | - | |||
James Allan | WF | - | |||
James Calder | WF | - | |||
William Clark | WF | 47 | |||
William Crocket | WF | - | |||
Ronald Alan Addison | PC | 24 | Metropolitan Police | 24 January 1960 | Collapsed and died of heart failure while pursuing suspects[100] |
Edward Roy Dorney | PC | 24 | Metropolitan Police | 1 January 1960 | Killed along with Police Dog Gus when hit by a train whilst pursuing burglary suspects.[101] |
Jack Fourt-Wells | WF | 46 | London Fire Brigade | 23 January 1958 | Smithfield Poultry Market in the Smithfield district of London, burnt down in January 1958. Fourt-Wells and another firefighter, Richard Stocking, became lost in the basement labyrinth beneath the market and were not missed nor reported missing until it was too late.[note 1][102][103] |
Albert Farrow | RF | 44 | Kent Fire Brigade | 29 November 1957 | A fire had engulfed the tailor's shop at Oakwood Hospital in Maidstone. The fire was successfully extinguished, but without warning, an adjacent 115-foot (35 m) tower collapsed on those performing dampening down operations. Many people were trapped under the rubble and three firemen and three hospital staff were killed.[104][105] |
Cecil Robert Budden | PC | 27 | Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police) | 19 May 1957 | Fatally injured in a collision with a car while on motorcycle patrol. |
Sidney George Miles | PC | 42 | Metropolitan Police | 2 November 1952 | Shot whilst responding to a burglary |
Robert Burrows | WF | 25 | Salford Fire Brigade | 1 March 1951 | Burrows and his crew were on their way to a call in Weaste on the west side of Salford. The fire appliance they were on was a type where the firefighters rode along the outside of the vehicle and held on to a handrail. Whilst en route, the handrail snapped, Burrows and a colleague fell into the road where Burrows sustained head injuries and died.[106] Investigations later determined that water penetration had rotted the wood where the screws affixed it to the appliance.[107] |
Acronym | Title | Service | Notes |
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ACC | Assistant Chief Constable | Police | |
A/ | Acting/(rank) | Police | The prefix "acting" (e.g. acting inspector, abbreviated A/Insp) denotes an officer who is performing the role of a higher rank than the one actually held (sometimes informally termed "acting up") |
CC | Chief Constable | Police | Head of a police service (however, some forces, such as the Metropolitan Police Service have a slightly different structure of Chief officer's, with the equivalent of Chief Constable being Commissioner) |
CEO | Police | ||
Cmdr | Commander | Police | |
Ch.Insp | Chief Inspector | Police | |
Ch.Supt | Chief Superintendent | Police | |
DC | Detective Constable | Police | |
DCC | Deputy Chief Constable | Police | |
DO | Divisional Officer | Fire & Rescue Service | |
Insp | Inspector | Police | |
OFS | Other Firefighter Staff | Fire & Rescue Service | |
PC | Police Constable | Police | |
PS | Police Sergeant | Police | |
SPC | Special (Police) Constable | Police | Part of the Special Constabulary, officers with the same powers as regular colleagues, who perform duties on a voluntary basis |
Supt | Superintendent | Police | |
T/ | Temporary/(rank) | Police | The prefix "temporary" before a rank (e.g. temporary detective sergeant, abbreviated T/DS) denotes an officer who has been temporarily promoted to a rank (and so who does actually hold that rank, albeit on a temporary basis) |
TF | Trainee Firefighter | Fire & Rescue Service | |
WF | Wholetime Firefighter | Fire & Rescue Service | |
WPC | Woman Police Constable | Police | The use of the word 'Woman' was abolished by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 |
RF | Retained Firefighter | Fire & Rescue Service |