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A police officer (also known as a policeman or policewoman and sometimes constable, particularly in Australia) is a warranted employee of a police force. Police officers are generally responsible for apprehending criminals, maintaining public order, and preventing and detecting crime. Police...
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Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie (October 25, 1913 – September 25, 1991) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (rank approximately equivalent to army captain), soldier and Gestapo member. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon.
Klaus Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, today part of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1913
Date of death:
- Sep 25, 1991 (age 77 years)
Maurice Papon
Maurice Papon (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a French civil servant, industrial leader and Gaullist politician, convicted for crimes against humanity for his participation in the deportation of over 1600 Jews during World War II when he...
Date of birth:
- Sep 3, 1910
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 2007 (age 96 years)
Charles Moose
Charles Alexander Moose (born 1953) is an American law enforcement official and author. A native of New York City who grew up in North Carolina, he has served as the chief of police for Montgomery County, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon. During...
Date of birth:
- 1953 (age 57 years)
Paul Touvier
Paul Touvier (April 3, 1915 - July 17, 1996) was convicted of crime against humanity for his Collaborationist role during Vichy France.
He was born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Alpes de Haute-Provence, in south-eastern France. As a teenager, Touvier...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1915
Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1996 (age 81 years)
Erich Mielke
Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (December 28, 1907 – May 21, 2000 in Berlin) was a German Communist politician and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 to 1989. A hard-line stalinist, he spent several years in the Soviet...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1907
Date of death:
- May 21, 2000 (age 92 years)
James E. Davis
James E. Davis (April 3, 1962 – July 23, 2003) was a New York City police officer, corrections officer and council member. He was killed by a fellow politician in New York's City Hall, in a bizarre instance of political rivalry gone awry.
Davis was...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1962
Date of death:
- Jul 23, 2003 (age 41 years)
John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington KStJ QPM DL FRSA (born 21 October 1942) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police Service) from 2000 until 2005. From 1991 to 1996, he was Chief Constable of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1942 (age 67 years)
Lee P. Brown
Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) had a long-time career in law enforcement, leading police departments in Atlanta, Houston and New York over the course of nearly four decades. During this time he helped to implement a number of techniques in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1937 (age 72 years)
J. D. Tippit
J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) was a police officer with the Dallas, Texas Police Department who, according to numerous witnesses and multiple government investigations including the Warren Commission, was shot and killed by...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1924
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1963 (age 39 years)
Dan White
Daniel James "Dan" White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was a San Francisco supervisor who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on November 27, 1978, at City Hall. In a controversial verdict that led to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1946
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 1985 (age 39 years)
Matt Barlow
Matthew Barlow (born 10 March 1970 in Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American heavy metal singer and police officer. He currently is the lead singer for Iced Earth. He is Jon Schaffer's brother-in-law.
Barlow joined Iced Earth after the Night of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1970 (age 39 years)
John Nott-Bower
Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower KCVO KPM OStJ (March 1892 – 3 October 1972) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1953 to 1958. He was the first career police officer to hold this post....
Date of birth:
- Mar 1892
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1972 (age 80 years)
Andre Stander
Andre Stander (1946 – 13 February 1984) was a police Captain at the CID branch of Kempton Park Police Station, South Africa who began robbing banks in the 1970s, and later became known in popular media as the head of the Stander Gang in the early...
Date of birth:
- 1946
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 1984 (age 38 years)
Max Wielen
Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen was the Kripo police chief at Breslau. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Trials Commission but served only a few years of his sentence. Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the...
Bernard C. Parks
Bernard C. Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles. He is the former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Parks attended Los Angeles City...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1943 (age 66 years)
Lawrencia Bembenek
Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, now known as Laurie Bembenek (b. August 15, 1958) was convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife, Christine Schultz, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 28, 1981. Her story garnered national attention after she escaped from...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1958 (age 51 years)
Eldrin Bell
Eldrin Bell is the former police chief for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, and was elected in November 2004 to serve as the county commission chairman for nearby Clayton county. He is also the father of former American Idol contestant Justin Guarini....
Antoinette Frank
Antoinette Frank (born 30 April 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1971 (age 38 years)
Mick Keelty
Michael Joseph (Mick) Keelty (born 13 July 1954), Australian police officer, was the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police from 2001 to 2009. He joined the Australian Capital Territory police in 1974. The ACT Police and Commonwealth Police...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1954 (age 55 years)
Jacques de Bernonville
Jacques Charles Noel Duge de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime in France infamously known as the man who hunted down resistance fighters during World War II....
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1897
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1972 (age 74 years)
Roger Rogerson
Roger Caleb Rogerson (born January 3, 1941) is a controversial former detective-sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force. Rogerson was convicted of perverting the course of justice and lying to the 1999 Police Integrity Commission. He was one of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1941 (age 69 years)
Hoi Kim Heng
Corporal Hoi Kim Heng (1970-21 May 1994) was a police officer of the Singapore Police Force who was stabbed to death at the age of 24 by Soh Loo Ban after a chase near Fook Hai Building in Singapore on 21 May 1994. He was the second last police...
Date of birth:
- 1970
Date of death:
- May 21, 1994 (age 24 years)
Lee Kim Lai
Lee Kim Lai (1960-25 April 1978) was a police officer who was murdered on 25 April 1978 for his service revolver by three men. A serving Police National Serviceman, he was performing police sentry duty at the Police Reserve Unit 1 base of the...
Date of birth:
- 1960
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1978 (age 18 years)
George F. Johnson, IV
George F. Johnson IV is the current superintendent of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police, appointed by Governor O'Malley in 2007.
Johnson is a 1971 graduate of Cardinal Gibbons High School. In 1994 he graduated with an AA (Criminal...
Ian Blair
Sir Ian Warwick Blair QPM (born 19 March 1953) is a former senior British Police Officer who previously held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008, at which time he was the highest ranking officer within the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1953 (age 56 years)
Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa
Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are two former New York Police Department (NYPD) police detectives who worked on behalf of the New York Mafia while they committed various illegal activities. In 2006, they were convicted of labor racketeering,...
Gerard John Schaefer
Gerard John Schaefer (March 25, 1946 – December 3, 1995) was an American serial killer from Florida. He was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a police officer.
While he was convicted of two murders, he was suspected of many others....
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1946
Date of death:
- Dec 3, 1995 (age 49 years)
Charles H. Ramsey
Charles H. Ramsey (born 1950), is the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. Prior to assuming that post in January 2008, he had served as Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) from 1998 to 2006....
Date of birth:
- 1950 (age 60 years)
Terry Lewis
Terence Murray "Terry" Lewis (born 29 February 1928), previously Sir Terry Lewis OBE GM QPM, is a former Queensland, Australia police commissioner who was convicted and jailed for corruption as a result of the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
In 1976 Lewis was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1928 (age 81 years)
Gilbert Harding
Gilbert Charles Harding (5 June 1907, Hereford, England – 16 November 1960, London, England) was a British journalist and radio and television personality. His many careers included schoolmaster, journalist, policeman, disc-jockey, interviewer and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1907
Date of death:
- Nov 16, 1960 (age 53 years)
Charles Becker
Charles Becker (July 26, 1870 – July 30, 1915) was a New York City police officer in the 1890s and 1910's and who was tried, convicted and executed for ordering the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker was the first American...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1870
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 1915 (age 45 years)
Alfredo Lim
Alfredo Siojo Lim (born December 21, 1929) is the incumbent Mayor of the City of Manila and a former senator of the Philippines. A widower, he first served as mayor of Manila from 1992 to 1998 and returned to that post after winning in the 2007...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1929 (age 80 years)
Kenny Washington
Kenneth S. "Kingfish" Washington (August 31, 1918, Los Angeles, California – June 24, 1971) was a professional football player who was one of the first African-Americans to play in the National Football League's modern (post-World War II) era.
He...
Date of birth:
- Aug 31, 1918
Date of death:
- Jun 24, 1971 (age 52 years)
Cressida Dick
Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick (born 1960) is a senior officer in London's Metropolitan Police. Prior to 2005 she was a largely unknown figure, but became well-known as a result of being the officer in command of the operation that led to the...
Date of birth:
- 1960 (age 50 years)
Eddie Compass
P. Edwin Compass, III is a former Chief of Police of the New Orleans Police Department.
He resigned as Chief of Police on September 27, 2005. Compass, who earlier said he was organizing a tribunal to handle the cases of 249 officers who left their...
Samuel J. Battle
Samuel Jesse Battle (b. January 16, 1883 in New Bern, North Carolina) (died August 7, 1966) was the first black police officer in the city of Brooklyn, later New York City. After attending segregated schools in North Carolina, Battle moved north,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1883 (age 127 years)
Jacob Chestnut
Jacob Joseph Chestnut (April 28, 1940 – July 24, 1998), one of the two United States Capitol Police officers killed in the line of duty on July 24, 1998, was the first African American to lie in honor in the United States Capitol. Chestnut is buried...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1940
Date of death:
- Jul 24, 1998 (age 58 years)
Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert
Peter Michael Imbert, Baron Imbert CVO QPM (born 27 April 1933) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service from 1987 to 1993, and prior to that appointment Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 1979 to 1985.
He was the Lord...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1933 (age 76 years)
Sharon Beshenivsky
Police Constable Sharon Beshenivsky (14 January 1967–18 November 2005) was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot dead by a criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
Another police officer, PC Teresa Millburn, was also...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1967
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 2005 (age 38 years)
John Balcerzak
John Balcerzak is a police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and president of the Milwaukee Police Association. In 1991, he was fired for having handed over an injured victim to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, despite the victim's protests.
Two women,...
Paul Condon, Baron Condon
Paul Leslie Condon, Baron Condon, QPM, DL (born 10 March 1947) is a retired British police officer. He was the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (covering London) from 1993 to 2000.
He joined the police in 1967 and became Chief Constable of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1947 (age 62 years)
Roland Dantes
Roland Dantes is an actor and Filipino martial artist who trained with Remy Presas for over 30 years.
He has also trained with other martial arts masters, such as Cacoy Canete and Edgar Sulite. He worked several years as a police officer before...
Date of birth:
- 1941
Date of death:
- Mar 16, 2009 (age 68 years)
Ella Bully-Cummings
Ella M. Bully-Cummings (born 1958) became the first female police chief of Detroit, the tenth-largest police force in the United States, when Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appointed her on November 3, 2003.
She is married to Attorney William Cummings, a...
Date of birth:
- 1958 (age 52 years)
Willie L. Williams
Willie L. Williams (born 1 October 1943) was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Williams was the first African-American police...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1943 (age 66 years)
Michael Fuller
Michael Fuller, QPM is the Chief Constable of Kent Police and the first black Chief Constable in the United Kingdom.
Michael Fuller took up his role as Chief Constable of Kent on 5th January 2004. He joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1975 as...
Nat Glover
Nathaniel Glover, Jr. (born March 29, 1943), known as Nat Glover is a retired American police officer who served as Sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida, from 1995 to 2003. He was the first African American elected sheriff in Florida since the end of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 29, 1943 (age 66 years)
Reuben Greenberg
Reuben Morris Greenberg, born in 1943, was the first Black police chief of Charleston, South Carolina, and known for being an innovative criminologist.
He was police chief there from 1982 until his retirement in 2005.
Originally from Texas,...
Earl Broady
Earl Broady (b. 1904 - 1992). A senior LA police officer who went on to become a Deputy D.A., and then a judge.
"I not only was born across the tracks. I was born on the wrong side of that place across the tracks,” Earl Broady once said. A native of...
Date of birth:
- 1904
Date of death:
- 1992 (age 88 years)
Nuhu Ribadu
Nuhu Ribadu (born November 21, 1960) was a Nigerian government official. He is the pioneer Executive Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the government commission tasked with countering corruption and fraud....
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1960 (age 49 years)
Kenneth Newman
Sir Kenneth Leslie Newman, GBE, QPM (born 15 August 1926) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1982 to 1987 and Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from 1976 to 1980. He is best known for initiating a major reform and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1926 (age 83 years)
Arthur Johnston
Arthur "Art" Johnston (born August 3, 1947 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Hays as a Progressive Conservative.
Johnston was born...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1947 (age 62 years)
Paul Stephenson
Sir Paul Robert Stephenson, QPM (born 1953) is the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service.
Stephenson grew up in Bacup in the Rossendale district of south-east Lancashire, the son of a butcher. He attended Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar...
Date of birth:
- 1953 (age 57 years)
David McNee
Sir David McNee QPM (born 1925) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1977 to 1982 and Chief Constable of the City of Glasgow Police (later Strathclyde Police) from 1971 to 1977.
Born in Glasgow, McNee worked as an office boy at the...
Date of birth:
- 1925 (age 85 years)
Tsui Po Ko
Tsui Po-ko (Chinese: 徐步高) (17 May 1970 — 17 March 2006) was a police constable in the Hong Kong Police Force who was implicated in a number of spectacular crimes, which included bank robbery and murder.
He died when he and another police constable...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1970
Date of death:
- Mar 17, 2006 (age 35 years)
Rob Furlong
Rob Furlong, a former corporal of the Canadian Forces, holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yards, or 1.51 miles). Established in 2002, the shot exceeds that of Sgt Brian Kremer of the 2nd Ranger...
Todd Blackburn
PFC Todd Blackburn was an Army ranger injured at the Battle of Mogadishu on October 3 1993 when he was attempting to fast-rope down to the street below to begin the assault. As he was going down, he lost his grip, and fell to the street below,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1973 (age 36 years)
Miguel Etchecolatz
Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz (born 1929) was a senior Argentine police officer, who worked in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police during the first years of the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process. He was convicted and...
Date of birth:
- 1929 (age 81 years)
Carol Shaya
Carol J. Shaya-Castro (also known under her maiden name Carol Shaya) is a former glamor model, actress, and New York City police officer whose employment was terminated after she appeared in the August 1994 issue of Playboy magazine.
Shaya was born...
Date of birth:
- 1970 (age 40 years)
Edward Acevedo
Edward "Eddie" Acevedo is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 2nd district since 1995.
Acevedo was born and raised in Chicago. He earned his associates degree in general studies from City-Wide College....
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1963 (age 46 years)
Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle (born July 30, 1980 in Milan) is an Italian boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 (Chicago) and 2009 (Milan) as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
His...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1980 (age 29 years)
