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In 1995, 9.8% of sworn police officers were women. [27] This number grew in the next decade; in 2005 female police officers made up 11.2% of all sworn police officers. [28] One decade later, the number of policewomen has grown little, from 11.2% in 2005 to 11.9% in 2014. [29]
Discrimination among female police officers also seems to be prevalent even though black police officers, both male and female, make up only 12% of all local departments. [42] There is also the issue of women being excluded from special units, with at least 29% of the white women and 42% of the black women mentioning this phenomenon. [41]
Before the First World War, campaigners for women's rights had proposed that there should be female, as well as male, police officers. In 1883 the Metropolitan Police had employed one woman to visit female prisoners under supervision, and by 1889, there were 16 women employed to supervise female and child offenders in police stations (a job formerly done by officers’ wives).
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 ...
Mary D. Diehl was one of the first female police officers to work in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] [2]She had previously collaborated with L. M. Gillespie to improve the quality of life for more than two thousand women and girls who had become human trafficking victims.
Decoy: Police Woman was the first television show to feature a female police officer, and in fact the first built around a female protagonist. [135] 1959 Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon in Manitou Springs, Colorado, in 1959. [136] [137]
L. M. Gillespie was one of the first women police officers to be employed by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She had previously partnered with Mary D. Diehl to rescue more than two thousand women and girls who had become victims of human trafficking .
Georgia Ann Robinson (née Hill; May 12, 1879 – September 21, 1961) was an American police officer and community worker who was the first African American woman to be appointed a police officer at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); she was also one of the first Black policewomen to be hired in the country. She joined the force in 1916 ...