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PC Sharon Beshenivsky
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PC Sharon Beshenivsky (14
January 1967 – 18 November 2005) was a West Yorkshire Police
constable shot dead by a
criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford on 18 November 2005, becoming the
seventh female police officer in Great Britain to be killed on duty. Another
police officer, PC Teresa Millburn, was also shot in the incident, receiving
serious wounds to the chest. Millburn had joined the force less than two years
earlier; Beshenivsky had served only nine months in the force at the time of
her death.
Closed-circuit
television cameras tracked a car rushing from the scene and used an automatic
number plate recognition system to trace its owners. This led to six
suspects being arrested; three were later convicted of murder,
robbery and firearms offences; two of manslaughter,
robbery and firearms offences; and one of robbery. A seventh suspect remains at
large.
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