Reece honoured at memorial service

29 July 2024

Hertfordshire Acting Sergeant Reece Buckenham was listed in the roll of honour at the annual Care of Police Survivors (COPS) Service of Remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire on Sunday.

Father of two Reece, who was 36, was riding a motorcycle on the A10 between Rush Green and Great Amwell having finished a night shift on 29 June when he was involved in a road accident.

The popular officer’s name was read out by the COPS president Gill Marshall as part of the roll of honour for those officers who had died since the charity’s 2023 remembrance service.

Other officers listed were:

Sergeant Graham Saville of Nottinghamshire Police who died on 20 August 2023

Sergeant Paul Frear of West Midlands Police who died on 22 September 2023

PC Jack Cummings of West Yorkshire Police who died on 19 May 2024, and

The list also included British Transport Police Property Officer Mark Birch who died on 12 October 2020.

READ MORE: Tributes paid to Reece Buckenham.