Pietari Rantala
Syntymäaika: 22.03.1914
Kuolinaika: 22.10.1940
Location / Place: Rovaniemi
Rank: Junior Constable
Police unit: Mobile Police Detachment Lapland
Lähteitä: Suomen Poliisilehti 22/1940; Poliisimies 22/1940
Tapahtumien kuvaus: On Sunday, 20.10.1940, Junior Constable Rantala arrested a drunken man named Yrjö Henrik Jussiniemi near the site where the Jäniskoski power plant was being built. Rantala intended to take Jussiniemi to the detention centre, but Jussiniemi pulled out a knife and stabbed Rantala. Rantala was taken to the hospital in Rovaniemi, where he died on October 22nd.
Tekijä 1: Jussiniemi, Yrjö Henrik
Judgment 1: Sentenced to life imprisonment and permanent loss of civic confidence
Memorial plaque: Police University College
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