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  2. Women's Police Service - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of senior female officers of the British Armed Forces

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    Three senior female officers in 2019: Cdre Eleanor Ablett, AVM Chris Elliot, and Air Cdre Maria Byford. The following is a list of women who have reached general, flag or air officer rank in the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force, not including those given honorary ranks.

  4. Women, Peace and Security Index - Wikipedia

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    WPS index 2023 top countries. The Women, Peace and Security Index (WPS) scores and ranks countries in terms of women's security, justice, and inclusion. [1] The index is widely used to compare countries as well as their development trends over time. [2] [3] [4]

  5. Mary Sophia Allen - Wikipedia

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    She heard that a number of women were working to establish a women's police force and, in 1914, she joined Nina Boyle's Women Police Volunteers. This was taken over by Margaret Damer Dawson in 1915 and renamed the Women Police Service (WPS), with Allen as second-in-command.

  6. Women in peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Women's representation in major peace processes from 1992 to 2018. As of October 2022, women constituted about 6% of military personnel. [20] In January 2021, women constituted 11% of police units and 28% of individual police in peacekeeping missions. [21]

  7. Women's Royal Army Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC; sometimes pronounced acronymically as / ˈ r æ k /, a term unpopular with its members) was the corps to which all women in the British Army belonged from 1949 to 1992 except medical, dental and veterinary officers and chaplains, who belonged to the same corps as the men; the Ulster Defence Regiment, which recruited women from 1973, and nurses, who belonged ...

  8. Edith Smith (police officer) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Military police of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    British military police member using field glasses to look across the Berlin Wall from a viewing platform on the western side, 1984. The Special Investigation Branch is the name given to the detective branches of all three Service police arms: the Royal Navy Police, Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police. In December 2022 the separate ...