Stephen John Dodd

Died

24 December 1983

Age

Rank

Inspector

Force

Metropolitan Police

Cause

Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Died one week after sustaining fatal injuries when a terrorist car bomb exploded outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, London.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died one week after sustaining fatal injuries when a terrorist car bomb exploded outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, London.

Circumstances

On 17 December Police received reports of a bomb inside a car parked outside the Harrods store in Knightsbridge. As officers began to investigate reports of the device it exploded and fatally injured Inspector Dodd.

Died one week after sustaining fatal injuries as he and two other officers were investigating a reported terrorist car bomb and evacuating the area outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, when the device exploded, killing WPC Jane Phillipa Arbuthnot and PS Noel Joseph Lane instantly. Three members of the public were also killed.