First Kent Police officer killed on duty honoured

On Sunday 24 August, 1873, residents in a Kent town woke to find themselves at the centre of a grisly moment of policing history.

Lying in a field in Snodland was the body of PC Israel May, the first member of the Kent constabulary to be killed on duty.

Discovered with gruesome head injuries, PC May's death shocked a community and marked another tragedy for the officer's family.

Standing beside his grave, Kent Police Museum volunteer Pam Mills told Secret Kent that PC May's death was "so, so sad", and that more could be done to continue to remember him.

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