Robert Charles Keylock

Died

19 November 2003

Age

Rank

Detective Constable

Force

Thames Valley Police

Cause

Road Traffic Collision (RTC)

Duty Status

Travelling From

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed while travelling home from CID duties in Banbury when, at 11:20pm, his vehicle ran off the A4260 near Deddington, Oxfordshire, and struck a tree.

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed while travelling home from CID duties in Banbury when, at 11:20pm, his vehicle ran off the A4260 near Deddington, Oxfordshire, and struck a tree.

Circumstances

While travelling home from CID duties at Banbury late at night, he was killed when his vehicle left the road and collided with a tree near Deddington.

DC Keylock joined the force in 1985 as a Beat Officer in the Oxford area before moving to CID in 1990. He then served with Special Branch for three years and was selected for an international secondment to Bosnia in 1998. He returned to Thames Valley Police as a uniformed PC in the Oxford area before joining Banbury CID in 2002.

He is survived by his wife and their two children, a son aged 15 years and a daughter aged 7 years.