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Female officers' uniforms have gone through a great variety of styles, as they have tended to reflect the women's fashions of the time. Tunic style, skirt length and headgear have varied by period and force. By the late 1980s, the female working uniform was identical to the male uniform, except for headgear and sometimes neckwear.
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]
Opposite gender play is also possible between inmates and guards or when the setting includes a co-ed facility/institution. Prison play is also an expansion of the uniform fetish by use of inmate, guard, and staff uniforms. Torturer/Captive prisoner: where one player is a captor who abuses the other, can also include ravishment and kidnap ...
Uniforms of the New York City Police Department in 1871 A New York City police officer, wearing a custodian helmet, answers a visitor's questions at the corner of Fulton and Broadway in 1899. The navy blue uniforms adopted by many police departments in this early period were simply surplus United States Army uniforms from the Civil War. [4]
Full dress uniform, also known as a ceremonial dress uniform or parade dress uniform, is the most formal type of uniforms used by military, police, fire and other public uniformed services for official parades, ceremonies, and receptions, including private ones such as marriages and funerals.
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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).
Until 1998, women in the police had their rank prefixed with a letter W (for example, "WPC" for Constable). In March 2016, 28.6% of police officers in England and Wales were women. [25] This was an increase from 23.3% in 2007. [25] Notable women in the police include Cressida Dick, the former Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service.