officer

31Aug

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India, Medics, Profiles

Dr Arun Sharma, senior medical officer

Dr Arun Sharma, the senior medical officer (SMO) of India’s Amritsar Civil Hospital, died on August 30, 2020, at a private hospital from Covid-19 and underlying comorbidities. The 54-year-old doctor tested positive on August 18. “Besides Covid-19, Dr Arun Sharma was suffering from heart ailments. Also, the virus had attacked his lungs. He was put on ventilator on Saturday but the doctors couldn’t save him despite best efforts. He passed away on Sunday morning”, said Dr Navdeep Singh, Amritsar civil surgeon. A viral video had shown Dr Sharma attempting to dance while sitting in bed at the hospital’s emergency ward with oxygen support attached. “We can fight the battle against Covid-19 only with bravery,” he had said. Dr Sharma, who...

30Jul

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Erik Lloyd, police officer

Erik Lloyd – who had served with the Metropolitan Police Department for nearly 30 years, died from coronavirus at University Medical Center on July 29, 2020. He was 53. He worked to help the families of fellow Clark County police officers hurt or killed in the line of duty for more than 16 years. “Everyone knows Erik as the man that shows up when tragedy strikes, whether it’s injury or a death,” Will Huddler, chairman of the Las Vegas Police Managers and Supervisors Association, said before learning of Lloyd’s death. “And now, it’s just this awkward feeling for the agency and all of us that Erik is the one who needs help. He’s always been there to help us.” In a statement from the Metropolitan Police Department, delivered...

15Jul

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Robert Hall, police officer

Robert Hall, a Columbia police officer, died from complications due to COVID-19 on July 14, 2020. Master Police Officer Robert Hall, known to family and friends as Bob, died in the morning of July 14, 2020, after receiving treatment at Prisma Health Baptist Hospital since July 5. Hall was a 35-year veteran of the Columbia Police Department. “Officer Hall exemplified everything that is expected out of a 21st Century police officer – service before self, professionalism, integrity, and compassion,” said Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook. “MPO Hall was well-known within the City of Columbia’s business and entertainment districts, having played an integral part in event planning and security. MPO Hall served with distinction and honor for more ...

7Jul

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Kenneth Harbin, correctional officer

Kenneth Harbin, an employee at the Price Daniel Unit in Snyder, has died of COVID-19, on July 6, 2020. Kenneth Harbin, 60, a correctional officer with more than 30 years of service, had been at a Lubbock hospital since June 28 after testing positive for COVID-19, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a news release. He was showing signs of improvement, but "took an unexpected rapid turn for the worse and died the morning of July 4," the release said. “Every death of one of our own is a tragic loss," said Bryan Collier, TDCJ executive director, in a statement. “The thoughts and prayers of his family in gray are with Officer Harbin’s loved ones and friends," he said. "He will not be forgotten." Daniel Unit senior...

6Jul

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Randy Rumler, corrections officer

Randy Rumler, a two-decade veteran of the Michigan Department of Corrections, died on July 6, 2020, after battling with COVID-19, the MDOC's Honor Guard announced. According to the honor guard, Rumler worked his entire 24-year career at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian. In recent years he worked in food service at the facility. Inmates and loved ones connected to the Harrison facility have expressed concerns that the department introduced COVID-19 to the facility by using it as a "step-down" unit for people who had earlier tested positive for the virus but didn't currently have it, and weren't yet ready to return to their home facility. Rumler was one of 383 staffers to catch the virus, including 31 others at Gus Harrison, and he is the ...

3Jul

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Bhagirath Adhav, police officer

Bhagirath Adhav ‑ an Assistant Police Inspector from Maharashtra posted at Samta Nagar police station in Kandivali East ‑ succumbed to coronavirus on July 3, 2020. He had tested positive on June 26, and was admitted to Oscar Hospital in Kandivali West two days later. Dilip Sawant, Additional Commissioner of Police, North Region, said Adhav’s health was deteriorating and he passed away at 4.30 pm after suffering a heart attack. Adhav, 52, is survived by his wife, daughter and son. His younger brother, inspector Chimmaji Adhav, is in charge of Unit XI of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch. API Adhav was fitted with a pacemaker a few years ago, after he had suffered a heart attacked. He had been working throughout the lockdown, officials said, patrolling his beat in Samta Nag...

3Jul

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Erica McAdoo, police officer

Erica McAdoo, a Senior Detention Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, died from complications of COVID-19 on July 3, 2020. LAPD officials have not confirmed thus far whether or not Officer McAdoo acquired the virus on the job. Another 287 LAPD employees are now quarantined at home after having been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to the department’s tweet. On Facebook, Jerome Hall, of the Fort Worth Black Law Enforcement Officers Association, wrote that Erica McAddo’s mother, Donna Royston, reported that even though her daughter had been “cured” of the COVID-19 virus, yet “she remained ill for months,” with damage to heart and kidneys. WLA has not yet been able to confirm the above statement, but the matter of ser...

22Jun

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Yasir Naseem, medical officer

Dr Yasir Naseem ‑ a senior medical officer in the cardiothoracic and vascular surgery (CTVS) department at Delhi’s Fortis Escorts Heart Institute – died of Covid-19-related complications on June 21, 2020. The 49-year-old doctor was employed at Delhi’s Fortis Escorts Heart Institute for around four years. The hospital has a Covid-19 ward, reported The Indian Express. A senior official at the hospital reportedly said, “He stopped coming to the hospital after June 3. Since the department wasn’t aware, someone got in touch with him and he said he was sick and won’t be coming in till he’s better. The hospital stayed in touch with him.” On June 17, Dr Naseem’s wife, also a doctor, rushed him to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, r...

9Jun

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SP Gautam, medical officer

SP Gautam, the chief medical superintendent of a district hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar, died of the coronavirus on June 9, 2020. The doctor passed away during his treatment at Lucknow-based SGPGI hospital. Source: India TV Please help us in adding details.

Antonio González Pacheco, police officer

8May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Antonio González Pacheco, police officer

Antonio González Pacheco Antonio González Pacheco died on 7 May 2020 from COVID-19 in Spain at the age of 73. Pacheco, known also as Billy the Kid (Billy el Niño) was a Spanish police inspector in Francoist Spain who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014. María Romilda Servini had called for the indictment. The request for extradition was refused by the Spanish High Court on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him. He competed in a half-marathon in Madrid in 2010. He previously had a pension that was 1.5 times larger than the usual one and he had four medals of honour. A report from the Ministry of the Interior in 2018 revealed this. ‘That year interior minister Fernando Gra...