29 Sep 2009

Police honour officers killed in line of duty

3:48 pm on 29 September 2009

Police officers killed in the line of duty are being honoured on Tuesday.

A total of 29 New Zealand officers have been killed while on duty since 1890.

The occasion is in honour of all police officers, both serving and retired, who died in the past year.

The man national service was at the Royal New Zealand Police College at Porirua.

Another service was at the Davis Funeral Home in west Auckland.

Among those being remembered are Senior Constable Len Snee, who was killed by the Napier gunman Jan Molenaar in May.

Sergeant Don Wilkinson, who was shot dead while installing a tracking device on a car in South Auckland, was also honoured.

Police Association president Greg O'Connor says the death of Sergeant Derek Wootton in Wellington more than a year ago means there were three fatalities in relatively quick succession.