Father-of-one Sergeant Matt Ratana was 54 and had been due to retire within months, after 30 years' service with the Met Police when he was shot dead.
He was born in Palmerston North in New Zealand and at school was a prefect, tennis champion and excelled in rugby.
Ratana is part Maori and his grandmother Iriaka was the first Maori woman to be elected to Parliament in 1949. Born Matiu Ratana, he was known as Matt to his family and friends.
