Police Dependants' Trust

Police Care UK, formerly the Police Dependants' Trust, is a body which looks after the interest and welfare of the families of British police officers who have died or been incapacitated as a result of injury while on duty.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

It was set up in December 1966 from financial donations which flooded in after three CID officers in London were murdered by three men whose car they had stopped for a routine inspection (Shepherd's Bush murders).<ref name="polfed"/><ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> The initial contributor was holiday camp owner Billy Butlin, who anonymously donated £100,000. Public donations soon swelled the fund to one million pounds.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" />

The three killers were all given life sentences.<ref name=":4" /> John Duddy died while imprisoned in Parkhurst prison in February 1981,<ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> while John Edward 'Jack' Witney was released on licence in 1991 after 25 years and was later murdered in Bristol in 1999.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":2" /> Harry Roberts was released on licence in November 2014, after serving 48 years.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2019, following a merger with the National Police Fund, Police Dependents' Trust became Police Care UK.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref>

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