Roll of Honor
Incident
PC Green expressed his intention to spend some time in plain clothes keeping observation on a farm worker who resided at Moss Green near the hamlet of Elworth. The farm worker had several previous convictions for larceny and was believed to be engaged in petty pilfering.
James was not seen again until, after continual inquiries, his body was recovered from the Trent Mersey Canal at Moss Bridge, a quarter of a mile from the farm worker’s cottage. Medical evidence noted the cause of death to be the rupture of internal organs combined with twenty-three cut wounds caused by a sharp instrument about the head.
PC Green, who was a native of Handbridge, Chester, was stationed at Bradwall, near Sandbach, and had six years service with the force.
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Police Constable Green served with the Cheshire Constabulary.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Constable James Green 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 97,772 officers honored here.
In ENG, 702 of 2,827 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 24.8% of this state's fallen. That is 24.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Cheshire Constabulary, 3 of 30 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 10% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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When Felonious Deaths Occur
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Weapons Used Against Officers
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