Editing Devon and Cornwall Police (section)

===Officers killed in the line of duty===
{{See also|List of British police officers killed in the line of duty}}
The [[Police Roll of Honour Trust]] and [[Police Memorial Trust]] list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers.

Since 1814, the following officers of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary and its predecessors were killed while attempting to prevent or stop a crime in progress:<ref name="policememorial">{{cite web|url=http://www.policememorial.org.uk/index.php?page=devon-cornwall-constabulary|title=Police Roll of Honour Trust – Devon & Cornwall Constabulary|publisher=policememorial.org.uk|access-date=30 August 2014}}</ref>
* Town Sergeant Joseph Burnett, 1814 (shot attempting to disarm two drunken soldiers)
* PC William Bennett, 1875 (injured arresting a man for assault)
* PC Walter Creech, 1883 (stabbed by a man he warned)
* PC John Tremlett Potter, 1938 (fatally injured by two burglars he disturbed)
* PC Dennis Arthur Smith, 1973 (shot by a suspect he was pursuing)
* PC Christopher Francis Wilson, 1977 (contracted a fatal illness after being spat on during a disturbance at a football match)
* PC Joseph James Childs and PC Martin Ross Reid, 1978 (drowned after their car was swept into the sea during a storm)