Police officers killed in the line of duty could soon be granted posthumous bravery medals by the UK Government.
A Sunday Mail campaign to give them awards has been backed by the influential Police Superintendents’ Association (PSA) of England and Wales.
The families of Constable George Taylor – killed trying to stop an escapee at the State Hospital in Carstairs in 1976 – and Detective Sergeant Ross Hunt, who was murdered while trying to arrest a suspect in 1983, were refused awards last year because of a five-year time bar.
