Memorial : Traffic Officer John Kehoe - New Zealand Police

Traffic Officer John Kehoe

End of Watch: 31 January 1949

In Whakatane, after pursuing a motorcycle from the main street to outside the town for excess speed, was shot several times by Richard Angus McGill, aged 19.

McGill's body was located a week later in an orchard in Awakeri, a small settlement outside Whakatane, having shot himself.