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In England and Wales, 31.2% (40,319) of police officers were female on 31 March 2020. Previously, policewomen made up 28.6% in March 2016, [2] and 23.3% in 2007. [2] Women also make up a majority of the non-sworn police staff. Notable women in British police forces include Cressida Dick, the former commissioner (chief) of the Metropolitan ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British police officers. It includes police officers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
On 18 September 2012, two Greater Manchester Police officers, Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, were killed by Dale Cregan in a gun and grenade ambush while responding to a report of a burglary in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The incident was the first in England in which two female police officers were killed on duty.
Founded in 1914, the Women Police Volunteers (WPV) was staffed by volunteers such as Smith. [4] It was founded by Nina Boyle and Margaret Damer Dawson, who fell out over its anti-prostitution role in London and elsewhere in February 1915, with Boyle leaving the organisation and Dawson reforming it as the Women's Police Service (WPS) with herself as head. [4]
The Women's Police Service (WPS) in the UK was a national voluntary organization of women police officers that was active from 1914 until 1940. As the first uniformed women's police service in the UK, it made progress in gaining acceptance of women's role in police work.
Her date of joining made her the first female Asian police officer in Britain. [2] [4] [5] Sandhu died in the line of duty on 4 November 1973. Her husband did not agree with her becoming a police officer, claiming it was neither suitably Asian nor ladylike. [6] [7] Eventually, her husband confronted her outside her house in Chelmsford Road ...
Shot while a man was being detained in a police custody centre [59] [60] Mandy Dawn Rayner: WPC: 18: Hertfordshire Constabulary: 13 October 1982: Vehicle struck during police pursuit. She was the first British woman police officer to be killed in service. [61] Phillipa Reynolds: PC: 27: Police Service Northern Ireland: 9 February 2013
This is a list of women who are or have been police and crime commissioners in England and Wales. List of female police and crime commissioners. Party Portrait