Tom Curry leads push for Injury on Duty Award Scheme

Heroic police officers forced to quit after being injured in the line of duty could be set for recognition for the first time in 200 years. From March 2024, all those who died in service from 1948 are eligible to receive the Elizabeth Emblem, but those who are injured still receive nothing.

For the estimated 13,000 men and women forced to retire through injury on the thin blue line, there has never been a physical symbol of their service, leaving many feeling as if they are “worth nothing” and "forgotten" . At Parliament on Thursday, a motion on an injury in service award was debated for the first time, thanks to three years of tireless campaigning from former Sussex Police detective Tom Curry and his supporters.

Mr Curry, now 75, s

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