| Surname | Forename | Rank | Killed | By | How Killed |
| McDougall | Lindsay | R/Constable | 14-Jan-1981 | INLA | Fatally wounded in gun attack in Great Victoria Street, Belfast |
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| Stronge | James | R/Constable | 21-Jan-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack at his home, Tynan Abbey, Co Armagh |
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| Lewis | Charles | R/Constable | 6-Feb-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack at Balmoral Avenue, Belfast |
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| Scott | Alexander | R/Constable | 8-Feb-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack outside his wife's shop at My Lady's Road, Belfast |
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| Acheson | Kenneth | Constable | 2-Apr-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded in booby trap car bomb at Berrywilligan Road, Bessbrook |
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| Martin | Gary | Constable | 27-Apr-1981 | INLA | Killed in booby trap bomb at Shaw's Road, Belfast |
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| Ellis | Philip | Constable | 6-May-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack at Edlingham Street/Duncairn Gardens, Belfast |
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| Vallely | Samuel | Constable | 14-May-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded in rocket grenade attack at Upper Springfield Road, Belfast |
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| Robinson | Mervyn | Constable | 28-May-1981 | IRA | Off duty he was shot dead at Whitecross, Co. Armagh |
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| Dunlop | Colin | R/Constable | 31-May-1981 | IRA | Shot dead while he was on security duty at intensive care unit Royal Victoria Hospital |
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| Kyle | Christopher | R/Constable | 17-Jun-1981 | IRA | Off duty, he was fatally wounded in gun attack at his home near Omagh |
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| Quinn | Neal | Constable | 20-Jun-1981 | IRA | Off duty, he was fatally wounded in gun attack in North Street, Newry |
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| Smyth | John | Constable | 2-Aug-1981 | IRA | Killed when a landmine exploded near Loughmacrory, Omagh |
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| Woods | Andrew | Constable | 2-Aug-1981 | IRA | Killed when a landmine exploded near Loughmacrory, Omagh |
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| Evans | Mark | Constable | 7-Sep-1981 | IRA | Killed in landmine explosion near Pomeroy |
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| Montgomery | John | Constable | 7-Sep-1981 | IRA | Killed in landmine explosion near Pomeroy |
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| Proctor | John | R/Constable | 14-Sep-1981 | IRA | Off duty, he was visiting his wife who had just given birth in the Mid Ulster Hospital, Magherafelt, when he was shot dead |
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| Stewart | George | Constable | 26-Sep-1981 | IRA | Off duty, he was fatally wounded in a gun attack at Main Street, Killough, Co Down |
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| Beck | Alexander | Constable | 28-Sep-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded when his landrover was hit by a rocket at Suffolk Road, Belfast |
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| Lyttle | Silas | R/Constable | 17-Nov-1981 | IRA | Off duty, he was fatally wounded in gun attack outside his home at Grange,Ballygawley |
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| Coulter | William | Constable | 28-Nov-1981 | IRA | Fatally wounded by booby trap bomb at Unity Flats, Belfast |
