At about 8.20 pm on Monday, 1st March, 1943, Senior Constable Jones was shot dead whilst standing at the intersection of Church Street and Bridge Road, Richmond.

The murderer, Norman Morris Searle, had fired from a passing taxi cab in which he was a passenger. He was arrested later the same night and charged with the murder of the Constable and with shooting at the cab driver.

It was alleged he confessed to shooting Jones by mistake, and in fact had meant to murder another Constable against whom he held a grudge. He denied this at his trial, claiming he had been under the influence of alcohol and could not recall the incident. He was convicted of murder at the Melbourne Supreme Court and sentenced to life imprisonment.

At about midnight on Wednesday, 31st December 1947, Constable Koop, who was performing temporary duty at the Mornington Police Station, was on a motor cycle patrol of Pt. Nepean Road, Mt. Martha, when his motor cycle ran off the road and he was severely injured. The cause of the accident is unknown, but it was thought at the time he may have been forced off the road by oncoming traffic. Although removed to the Alfred Hospital he never regained consciousness, and on 2nd January 1948 he died from the injuries he had received.

At about 10 p.m. on Thursday, 21 October 1948, Constable Atkin was riding a police motor cycle north along St. Georges Road, North Fitzroy, when he collided with the rear of a truck parked near the intersection with Tranmer Street. Atkin died at the scene from injuries received.

First Constable George Willis died on 29 March 1949 after an eight-year battle with a respiratory illness he developed after an incident during a shift. On 26 May 1941, First Constable George Willis was called to a disused mine shaft in Ballarat after eight-year-old Graeme Dowling had fallen down it. Graeme had landed on a false bottom – a small ledge formed by some of the top sections of soil collapsing and getting caught on the sides of the shaft as it fell – about 14 meters from the surface.  He had miraculously avoided plummeting to the very bottom of the mine shaft, estimated to be about 92 meters deep.

First Const Willis arrived at the scene, along with two other police officers and a member of the local fire brigade, and quickly volunteered to go down the shaft to get the young boy.  Using rope tied to a nearby tree and a belt around Const Willis, the other officers lowered the constable down the mine shaft. When Const Willis reached Graeme, who was unconscious, he knew he had to work quickly to get out before the small ledge collapsed.  Tying another rope around the boy, the two were then pulled out of the shaft. Shortly after the incident, Const Willis started to become increasingly unwell, quickly losing his hair and becoming very aged in appearance. His health continued to decline in the following years and on 29 March 1949 he died at the Victoria Police Hospital. For his actions saving the young boy, Const Willis was awarded a Highly Commended Certificate from the Chief Commissioner at the time, as well as a Royal Humane Society bronze medal in 1942.