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Anil Kohli, Indian police officer
High Profilers, India, Profiles

Anil Kohli, Indian police officer

Anil Kohli, an assistant commissioner of police, who was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Ludhiana, died on April 18, 2020. "Sad News ACP Anil Kohli passed away. Died of #COVID-19. Was admitted in SPS Hospital Ludhiana," Ludhiana district public relations office tweeted. ACP Anil Kohli had tested positive for coronavirus a few days ago. On April 17, the Punjab government had given its go-ahead to the hospital to conduct plasma therapy on the police officer. Kohli (52) breathed his last at the SPS hospital, Ludhiana, informed Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana Rajesh Bagga, adding that his first test for the infection was negative but he tested positive in the subsequent test. The ACP did not show any sign of improvement since he was hospitalised and finally die...
Nipper Read, police officer
Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Nipper Read, police officer

Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read - a British police officer and boxing administrator – died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Read was the son of Leonard Read Snr., who worked for a leather company, and his wife Ida (née Morris). His mother died when he was four and he was sent to live with her brother. After their father remarried, Leonard and his two sisters and brother returned to live with their father and stepmother. Read did well in school, always being one of the top three pupils in junior and senior school. He learned to box, winning his first medal in 1937. He later joined the Grundy boxing club, where he was nicknamed "Nipper". Read had hoped to attend Nottingham High School and passed the entrance exam, but his father could not afford the...