Roll of Honor
Incident
About 3:00am on New Year’s Day 2003, as he returned home after policing New Year’s Eve celebrations in London, PC Ezobi’s car crashed through the central barrier and overturned on the A23 near Bolney, West Sussex.
He had served two years as a probationer with Sussex Police before transferring to the Metropolitan Police and an Acting Sergeant based in Brighton, said “As a police officer, Tok was an example to us all, always extremely well turned out, professional, enthusiastic and whose standards were very high. He had a fantastic sense of humour and was fun to work with. He was one of the most laid-back people I have met. We are all shocked by his death and he will be dearly missed by a lot of people”.
PC Ezobi is survived by his partner who was six months pregnant, their one-year-old son and his two stepsons, aged nine and six.
Survivors
PC Ezobi is survived by his partner who was six months pregnant, their one-year-old son and his two stepsons, aged nine and six.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Ezobi served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Ezobi.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Constable Tokunbo Ayodeji Ezobi is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ENG, 1,349 of 2,827 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 47.7% of this state's fallen. That is 16.7 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Metropolitan Police, 306 of 729 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 42% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Tokunbo Ayodeji Ezobi's cause is highlighted.
How Tokunbo Ayodeji Ezobi Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
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