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In August 1915, Edith Smith became the first British woman to be appointed a police officer with full powers of arrest. [12] Her duties were to deal with cases where women were involved. She was particularly concerned with trying to reduce the number of prostitutes in Grantham who were attracted there by the nearby army base. [13]
Women did detective work on their own, mostly without recognition. [4] They covered a wide range of cases, from robberies to murder. These female detectives were the beginning of women’s acceptance into the police force. However, it wasn’t for another 150 years that women were employed by law enforcement agencies. [5]
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.
On their return it was announced that a joint investigation by British police and a Libyan magistrate would undertake a formal investigation under Libyan law. [76] [77] British detectives were able to interview their main suspect for the murder in June 2007, following the normalisation of diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya.
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
A policeman’s widow picks up her late husband’s badge in the noir-inflected thriller “Santosh” from British-Indian writer-director Sandhya Suri, whose background in documentary gives this ...
PC Sharon Beshenivsky (née Jagger; 14 January 1967 – 18 November 2005) [3] was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot and killed by a criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford on 18 November 2005, becoming the seventh female police officer in Great Britain to be killed on duty. Her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, was seriously injured in the ...
Incidents of sexual harassment against women on British railways have more than doubled since 2021, according to new data. Figures from the British Transport Police Authority’s 2024 annual ...