Metropolitan Police

Metropolitan Police has lost 729 officers across 196 years on record. 185 — 25.4% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is consistent with the national average of 27.9% for polices.

306 officers were lost to accidents — 42% of this agency's fallen, compared to 40.5% nationally for polices. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 2 officers who died did so in an accident.

Metropolitan Police honors 15 officers whose deaths were linked to the weight of the job — officers who served, who carried what the badge demands, and who deserve to be on this wall equally. badge.nw is one of the only memorials that honors these officers without exception. This represents 2.1% of this agency's fallen, compared to a national average of 2% for polices.