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One of the first women police detectives in Sydney, Member of the New South Wales Police Force Lillian May Armfield ISM KPFSM (3 December 1884 – 26 August 1971) was an Australian nurse and pioneering Sydney female police detective, one of the first women to serve in that role.
Katarina Ruzh Carroll (nee Bošnjak) APM (born 17 November 1963) is a retired Australian police officer and was the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) from July 2019 to March 2024. She is the first female commissioner of QPS. She was formerly the Commissioner of the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services from August 2015 until ...
The first female police officers in Australia were appointed in New South Wales in July 1915 with Lilian May Armfield (1884–1971) and Maude Marion Rhodes (–1956). [ 1 ] On 1 December 1915, Kate Cocks (1875–1954) was appointed the first of two woman police constables, with Annie Ross, in South Australia , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] a position that had ...
Christine Nixon AO, APM (born 11 June 1953) is an Australian former police officer who was the chief commissioner of Victoria Police from 23 April 2001 to 27 February 2009, being the first female chief commissioner in any Australian state police force.
First female police officer in Victoria Madge Irene Connor ( c. 1874 – 12 October 1952) was an Irish-born Australian police officer, who was the first woman to become a member of Victoria Police , and the first policewoman in Victoria, [ 1 ] when she was appointed as a police agent in October 1917.
Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks (née Cock; 5 May 1875 – 20 August 1954) was a welfare worker and one of two of the state's first female police officers in South Australia. She is best known for her work with unmarried mothers and babies. The Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home named after her in honor of her work.
Sukkar was the first Australian police officer permitted to wear a traditional Muslim hijab as part of her official police uniform when she became a Victoria Police officer in 2004. [2] [3] She graduated from the Victoria Police Academy using the Qur'an to swear the oath to the Victoria Police before receiving her badge from commissioner ...
Karen Leanne Webb, APM (née Keefe) [1] is an Australian police officer, who replaced Mick Fuller as the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force in February 2022. [2] Webb is the first woman appointed to this office. [3] [4]