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Date: 30/09/2018 | Ref. 771016
Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th September 2018
National Police Memorial Day mark by UK wide police forces at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast
A congregation of more than 2,000 gathered to honour police officers who have died or been killed in the line of duty. To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War a wreath was laid and the names of officers who have died on service in the last 12 months read out.
Families of police officers, from throughout the UK who have died while on duty including Samantha Dixon(right) and her son Parker Cameron James Dixon(right in mother's arms) whose husband and father PC James Dixon of Thames Valley Police who died when his police motorcycle was involved in a collision in December 2017, light candles in their memory.
Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye