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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]
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
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.
Mary Sophia Allen OBE (12 March 1878 – 16 December 1964) was a British political activist known for her defence of women's rights in the 1910–1920s and later involvement with British fascism. She is chiefly noted as one of the early leaders of the Women's Police Volunteers .
A British woman and her fiance have been found dead in a holiday villa in Vietnam, local police have said. Greta Marie Otteson, 33, was discovered by staff dead on a bed in a first-floor room in ...
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 ...