{"id":203928,"date":"2025-06-22T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203928\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:24:11","slug":"police-officer-dies-on-duty-as-force-devastated-by-massive-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203928\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer dies on duty as force devastated by &#8216;massive loss&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His death is being treated as unexplained<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_Northants-Police-Stock.jpg\" alt=\"PC Ian Minett was working when he died on Saturday, June 21\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>PC Ian Minett was working when he died on Saturday, June 21(Image: CambridgeshireLive)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Gloucestershire Police has confirmed the death of PC Ian Minett, who tragically passed away while on duty on Saturday, June 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">His passing is currently being treated as &#8220;unexplained but non-suspicious&#8221; and the Coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson from Gloucestershire Police said: &#8220;Gloucestershire Constabulary is saddened to report the death of PC Ian Minett whilst on duty this morning (Saturday 21 June). PC Minett\u2019s death is being treated as unexplained but non-suspicious and the Coroner has been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We extend our thoughts and prayers to PC Minett\u2019s family, friends, and colleagues, and we ask that his family are given privacy at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Adam Williams, Chair of Gloucestershire Police Federation, said: &#8220;All at Gloucestershire Police Federation are devastated to hear of the on duty death of PC Ian Minett. &#8220;I was lucky enough to work with Ian and he was well liked amongst all that had the pleasure of working alongside him and getting to know him. It is a massive loss to the shift, the station, and to the Constabulary as a whole.&#8221; &#8220;Our thoughts are with Ian&#8217;s family, friends and close colleagues at this difficult time and we will support them as best we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His death is being treated as unexplainedPC Ian Minett was working when he died on Saturday, June 21(Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,378,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-in-the-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724409574648528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}