George S. Bell

Plymouth Police Department — Plymouth, MA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch June 29, 1946

Age 31

Tour of Duty

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 3

Incident

Patrolman George Bell was shot and killed by a migrant worker when he and another officer attempted to arrest him for the murder of a housemaid that occurred a week earlier. Patrolman Bell and another officer were called to a home on Burley Lane when residents spotted the suspect in the area. A short time later, a state trooper shot and killed the suspect when the suspect opened fire on him in a field near a migrant workers' camp. Patrolman Bell was a United States Marine Corps World War II veteran and served with the Plymouth Police Department for only three weeks.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Bell served with the Plymouth Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Plymouth community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Plymouth Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA

Platform Identity ppd.plymouth.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 29, 1946

Tour of Duty

Age 31

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

George S. Bell served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman George S. Bell is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In MA, 199 of 469 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.4% of this state's fallen. That is 42.4 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Plymouth Police Department, 2 of 4 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 50% of this agency's fallen.

Plymouth Police Department

of 4 officers

50% Felonious

MA — Statewide

199

of 469 officers

42.4% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious