20th anniversary of the death of DC Mick Swindells
21 May 2024
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the death of DC Mick Swindells.
The West Midlands detective was stabbed to death in Birmingham on 21 May 2004 as he attempted to arrest a violent offender who had earlier threatened members of the public with a knife.
Mick, who was 44, had served with the Force for 14 years after a military career culminating in him reaching the rank of lance corporal in the Royal Engineers.
He was posthumously awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal and in 2008 the Police Memorial Trust erected a stone memorial to him at the location of the incident on a towpath of the Tame Valley Canal underneath Gravelly Hill Interchange in Aston.
West Midlands Police Federation today remembers Mick and his family, friends and colleagues who continue to feel his loss.
