Hugh Moore (police officer)

Moore joined the police force in 1955, following a period of National Service in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. In July that year, Moore gave evidence in the trial of two City of London Police officers, held as part of Operation Countryman, in which he denied corruption allegations made by one of the defendants. The allegations had been made on a secret tape recording, though the defendant, DCI Phil Cuthbert, had subsequently withdrawn them on the grounds that he had been drunk at the time they were made. Another officer, Dick Kirby, wrote that Moore "championed the cause of officers who were thought to be crooked, denigrated those who were straight". Moore was also involved with the police investigations into the collapses of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and the Maxwell empire. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 1992 New Year's Honours. He oversaw the establishment of the ring of steel surrounding the City of London in 1993. Over his career, he received eleven commendations from commissioners and judges for his work. ==Death==

On 19 November 1993, Moore attempted to arrest a man he suspected to be a bogus charity worker collecting for Great Ormond Street Hospital. During the arrest, he suffered cuts to his face, arms and legs, and was admitted to hospital eleven days later. He died, aged 64, from heart failure in a private hospital in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 4 December 1993, and was survived by his widow, Connie, and son, Roger. He had been due to retire that September. He is buried at Bells Hill Burial Ground, Chipping Barnet. The Commissioner of the City of London Police, Owen Kelly, described him as "one of the most professionally accomplished police officers I have ever known", and as a "modest man" who "would be the last to mention his own achievements". He said: "His death is a great loss to this force and he will be sadly missed by all who knew him." A coroner later ruled that Moore had been unlawfully killed, and the police inquiry into his death was subsequently stepped up to a murder inquiry. ==See also==