How Many Police Officers Died In 2024. The report found that 51% of officer deaths by suicide involved officers from local police departments, 20% were from sheriff’s offices and 13% were corrections. There were 47 male officers and 5 female officers killed in the line of duty during the period.
When a police officer is killed, it’s not an agency that loses an officer, it’s an entire nation. On average, officers left behind two children.