Four Bay of Plenty Police officers who died in the line of duty will be remembered at a special service in Rotorua today.

The event is one of many Remembrance Day services held across the country today as a total of 92 officers across Australasia and the South Pacific are honoured.

The four police officers killed in the line of duty in the Bay of Plenty.

A total of 29 officers have died in New Zealand since 1890.

Among those was Tauranga Sergeant Gilbert Peter Arcus, who died in 1970.

Gilbert was assaulted as he tried to calm a mentally disturbed woman. He fell to the floor fracturing the base of his skull.

The woman was charged with manslaughter but was later declared insane.

In 1986 traffic officer Robin James Dudding was taken hostage and shot by an 18-year-old man at Lake Rotoiti.

Armed police located Robin's body in his patrol vehicle near Hamurana.

The 18-year-old was found not guilty of his murder and the attempted murder of a second officer due to insanity. Robin was posthumously awarded the George Medal for bravery.

Another Bay of Plenty traffic officer, John Kehoe, was shot several times following a pursuit of a motorcyclist in 1949 in Whakatane.

The man responsible was found dead in an Orchard about a week later, having shot himself.

The last police death in the district was Constable Lester Murray Stretch.

Lester was beaten to death in Mangakino in 1999. He had attended reports of a burglary at a local store and chased Carlos Namana from the building.

He caught up with the Carlos but was overpowered and suffered extensive head injuries. Carlos was arrested the following day and later pleaded guilty to murder receiving life imprisonment.

All four Bay of Plenty policemen will be remembered at today's service in Rotorua.