Around 2,000 people including relatives of Wirral PC Dave Phillips gathered at St Paul's Cathedral in London with the Prince of Wales and Home Secretary Amber Rudd to honour fallen police officers.

Constable Phillips was among those specially remembered at the ceremony.

His eight-year-old daughter Abigail lit a candle to remember the 34-year-old who died after he set down a tyre-puncturing stinger device in a bid to stop a stolen vehicle during a police pursuit in Wallasey.

The father-of-two was knocked down and killed by a teenage car thief in October last year.

Clayton Williams, 19, killed PC Phillips just three weeks after coming out of jail on licence for crashing another stolen car in a police pursuit.

Williams was handed a 20-year prison sentence when he faced trial at Liverpool Crown Court in March.

Relatives of other officers killed in the line of duty represented Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as they too lit candles on Sunday.

Prayers were offered by family members including Paul Bone, father of Constable Fiona Bone, who was murdered by one-eyed gangster Dale Cregan four years ago.

Prince Charles, who is patron of National Police Memorial Day, paid tribute to those he said had "paid the ultimate sacrifice while safeguarding our families, our communities and our liberty".

In the order of service he wrote: "For many of us, the security challenges of today further underscore the importance of the police and their ongoing commitment to protecting us all, despite the inevitable risks that they face on a daily basis."