New Year Honours 1997
George Alan Durno
Queen's Police Medal
Detective Inspector • Merseyside Police
Organisation: Merseyside Police
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1997 with the Queen's Police Medal.
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Queen's Police Medal · 1997
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Queen's Police Medal
New Year Honours 1997- Role at the time
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How common is this award?
The Queen's Police Medal was awarded 26 times in the New Year Honours List 1997 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Detective Inspector, Merseyside Police.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the New Year Honours 1997
Alan Bruce Oliver
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
lately Assistant Chief Constable
Bernard James Luckhurst
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Commander
Clive Jeremy Robert Roche
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Daniel Blair Wallace
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Deputy Chief Constable
Desmond John Michael Donohoe
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Detective Chief Superintendent
Eric Leung Chi-bun
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Felix Gabriel Duffy
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Superintendent
Gerald Richard O'Connell
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Gordon Fung Siu-yuen
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Ian Gerald Quinn
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Commander
John Douglas Welsh
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
John Gilbert Dickie Grieve
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Commander
John Tecwyn Owen
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
John William Giffard
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
lately Chief Constable
Linda Louise Newham
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Marjorie Joan Webster
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Michael Messinger
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Commander
Michael William Horner
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Millie Stradmoor
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Paul Johnson
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Detective Superintendent
Perry Richard Nove
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
“for the City of London Police.”
Peter Ernest Halliday
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Q.P.M. England And Wales Ian Christopher Beckett
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Spencer Foo Tsun-kong
PersonQueen's Police Medal · 1997
Chief Superintendent
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Queen's Police Medal · 1997
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1997 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1996.
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