Derek Alwyn Gledhill

Metropolitan Police — London, ENG

Illness

End of Watch April 13, 1985

Age 37

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 728

Incident

Died while on night duty at Croydon Police Station after he collapsed with a heart attack in the Inspectors’ locker room and hit his head on a radiator as he fell.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Inspector Gledhill served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Inspector Gledhill.

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

Agency

Department Metropolitan Police

Location London, ENG

Platform Identity mpd.wsm.eng.gb.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 13, 1985

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail Medical

Inspector Derek Alwyn Gledhill is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In ENG, 719 of 2,827 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 25.4% of this state's fallen. That is 16.3 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.

At Metropolitan Police, 215 of 729 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 29.5% of this agency's fallen.

Metropolitan Police

215

of 729 officers

29.5% Illness

ENG — Statewide

719

of 2,827 officers

25.4% Illness

Nationwide

2,974

of 32,508 officers