> that data was the surname, initial, the rank or grade, the location and the departments
It's kinda wild how different policies and cultures can be across countries.
That information is FOIAble in the US, and there are projects that seek to build a public DB out of the respones for those requests.
I think NI is the outlier here. I am almost certain that if there was a multi-decade conflict where police officers were _directly targeted_ for assassination, there would be limits on access to this data in the US as well.