What was claimed
We have not heard of one police officer dying from Covid-19 across the world.
Our verdict
Incorrect. Many Covid-19 deaths among police officers have been reported worldwide, including at least one such death in the UK.
Police officers around the world have died from Covid-19
19 May 2020
A Facebook post claims that, although police are less able to socially distance themselves during their work, “we have not heard across the world of one police officer dying due to Covid 19”.
This is incorrect.
There have been many reported deaths from Covid-19 among police officers across the world, including 17 police officers in Peru and more than 50 officers in the USA.
At least one such Covid-19 death has been reported in the UK. According to news reports, a British Transport Police officer died on 17 April 2020 after becoming ill with Covid-19.
Other European countries, including Italy, France and Spain have also reported Covid-19 deaths among police officers.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because it incorrectly claims that no police officers have died due to Covid-19.