An officer with the London Metropolitan Police Department was gunned down inside a department station house in the Croydon neighborhood on Friday morning, the agency said in a statement.
An officer in Northamptonshire—a city in central England—had to have firefighters snip him out of a jam involving his own handcuffs early Tuesday.
A, officer with the Juárez Police Department was shot and killed late Wednesday night while heading home after his shift had ended, according to reports.
A man who spat in a police officer's face in Croydon Crown Court in south London and lied about having Coronavirus said he did it because he was "stressed."
The fallen officers are two male constables, one female senior constable and one male senior constable. It is believed one of the officers was new to the force, while the others were more “seasoned and experienced”.
An officer with the Punjab Police in India had his hand chopped off with a sword while he was attempting to enforce the lockdown put in place by the government amid the spread of COVID-19.
The incident reportedly happened on Tuesday afternoon and the courts in England were quick to act.
Police in Berlin, Germany, said on Thursday their emergency phone line had been swamped with questions about the lockdown imposed by authorities in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Two police officers in Juarez, Mexico, were killed in separate attacks on Wednesday.
A police officer was killed in an avalanche during a training exercise in the Austrian Alps this week.