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Sydney constable killed in car crash posthumously awarded honours, funeral told
Constable Mia Lay, 20, was farewelled after she died in a crash at Redfern a fortnight ago. (Supplied: NSW Police)
Constable Mia Lay has been posthumously awarded the national police service medal.
The police officer was killed in a car crash while responding to reports of a car theft in September.
Mia Lay, the young officer killed in a police car crash in Sydney, has been posthumously awarded the national police service medal, it has been announced at her funeral.
The 20-year-old died after her police vehicle crashed on a street in Redfern while responding to reports of a car theft on September 25.
‘You were taken from us far too soon’: Funeral service for Constable Mia Lay
Mourners gathered at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney’s CBD to farewell Constable Mia Lay, who was killed on duty in the early hours of September 25.
Lay died when the NSW Police patrol car she was travelling in collided with a tree in Redfern, in the city’s inner-south.
The 20-year-old had been a serving police officer for less than 18 months when she died, having graduated from the police force’s Goulburn academy last May.
Lay has been remembered as a passionate and promising young officer who was adored by colleagues in the South Sydney area command and the tight-knit Redfern police station, where she had been stationed since graduating.
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