| Surname | Forename | Rank | Killed | By | How Killed |
| Crawford | Ivan | R/Constable | 9-Jan-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in bomb explosion in centre of Enniskillen |
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| Nesbitt | Peter | R/Constable | 10-Mar-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in bomb explosion at Ardoyne, Belfast |
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| Bennison | John | D/Sergeant | 23-Mar-1987 | IRA | Killed in booby trap explosion at Magee College, Londonderry |
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| Wilson | Austin | D/Inspector | 23-Mar-1987 | IRA | Killed in booby trap explosion at Magee College, Londonderry |
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| Shaw | George | R/Constable | 3-Apr-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack on Ballynahinch RUC Station |
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| Armstrong | Frederick | R/Constable | 11-Apr-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack at Portrush |
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| McLean | Robert | R/Constable | 11-Apr-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack at Portrush |
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| Ead | David | Inspector | 20-Apr-1987 | IRA | Fatally injured in gun attack outside Newcastle RUC Station |
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| Cooke | Thomas | Sergeant | 23-Apr-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack as he left his golf club in Londonderry |
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| McClean | Sam | Constable | 2-Jun-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack as he worked on the farm of his elderly parents at Drumbreen, Co. Donegal |
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| Guthrie | Robert | Sergeant | 23-Jun-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack outside Antrim Road RUC Station |
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| Kennedy | Norman | Constable | 26-Jul-1987 | IRA | Shot dead in his Ballymena home as he watched television with his wife |
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| Carson | Ernest | D/Constable | 26-Aug-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack in docks area of Belfast |
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| Malone | Michael | D/Constable | 26-Aug-1987 | IRA | Fatally wounded in gun attack in docks area of Belfast |
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| Finlay | Winston | R/Constable | 30-Aug-1987 | IRA | Was getting out of his car driven by his wife outside his home, near Magherfelt when he was shot dead by gunmen |
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| Armstrong | Edward | R/Constable | 8-Nov-1987 | IRA | Killed in the Enniskillen Poppy Day bomb |
