The deaths of four Victoria Police officers on a Melbourne freeway eclipses the three shot dead by the Kelly gang 142 years ago as the biggest loss of life in a single incident in the force's history.
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At least 170 Victoria Police officers have died on duty or as a result of their duties.
BIGGEST LOSS OF LIFE
A female senior constable, a male senior constable and two male constables were killed when they were hit by a truck while standing on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway after pulling over a speeding Porsche driver on April 22, 2020.
KELLY GANG
Sergeant Michael Kennedy and Constables Thomas Lonigan and Michael Scanlan were shot and killed by the Kelly gang in the ambush at Stringybark Creek on October 26, 1878.
FIRST POLICE DEATH
The first recorded death of a serving police officer killed on duty in Victoria was Constable Matthew Tomkin, who was shot by escaped convict George Comerford in Melbourne on December 30, 1837.
FIRST FEMALE OFFICER KILLED
Angela Taylor was the first Australian female officer to die on duty after she was killed in the bombing of the Russell Street police headquarters in Melbourne on March 27, 1986.
WALSH STREET
Damien Jeffrey Eyre and Steven John Tynan were ambushed and shot by offenders who had deliberately lured police to an abandoned car in Walsh St, South Yarra for pre-meditated murders on October 12, 1988.
SILK-MILLER MURDERS
Rodney James Miller and and Gary Michael Silk were shot in Moorabbin while investigating a series of armed robberies on August 16, 1998.
MARK BATEMAN, FIONA ROBINSON
Senior constable Mark Anthony Bateman and sen-const Fiona Frances Robinson died when their divvy van crashed while responding to reports of a holdup in Northcote on May 20, 2000.
Australian Associated Press
