Iivar Kokkonen

Iivar Kokkonen

Syntymäaika: 10.5.1887

Kuolinaika: 4.9.1930

Location / Place: Heinola

Rank: Senior Constable

Police unit: Heinola Police Department

Lähteitä: Suomen Poliisilehti 17/1930

Nickname: Iivari

Tapahtumien kuvaus: The police had been informed that a well-known communist named Sulo Lehtinen was staying at a house in the area. Sheriff N. Kekkonen and three other policemen went to arrest him. The police knocked on the door, but someone inside claimed that Lehtinen was not there. A moment later, however, Lehtinen appeared in the yard and asked what the police were looking for. Sheriff Kekkonen said that they would take Lehtinen into custody for interrogation. Lehtinen drew his pistol and shot Senior Constable Kokkonen, who was standing next to the Sheriff. Lehtinen ran off, and during his escape, he shot at the police. The police also tried to shoot Lehtinen, but he managed to escape into the night and hide in the forest.

Tekijä 1: Lehtinen, Sulo

Judgment 1: Fled to the Soviet Union where he assumed the name Jaakko Rajala. In 1936, during Stalin's Great Purge, he was taken to a prison camp where he died.

Memorial plaque: Police University College