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<p>Service inquiries were introduced on 1 October 2008, to replace the three single-Service
systems of boards of inquiry. In the period from 1 October 2008 until 31 December
2012, the number of cases in which the death of a Service person was confirmed by
a coroner (or the procurator fiscal for Scotland) as a suicide, and for which a service
inquiry was held, is four.</p><p> </p><p>The number of cases in the Naval Service
for which a board of inquiry was convened into a death confirmed as a suicide in the
period from 1 January 2002 until 30 September 2008 is seven. Information about the
number of boards of inquiry convened by either the Army or the RAF before October
2008 is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>
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