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Human trafficking is another area policed, with close working relationships existing with the United Kingdom Border Force and UK Visas and Immigration. Traffic wardens and Police Community Support Officers work at both airports. In 2005, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, announced that Specialist Operations units were to be ...
As with other countries, police forces in the UK were entirely male at the start of the 20th century. Their numbers were limited for many decades, but have gradually increased since the 1970s. In England and Wales, 31.2% (40,319) of police officers were female on 31 March 2020.
A police officer (also called a policeman (male) or policewoman (female), a cop, an officer, or less commonly a constable) is a warranted law employee of a police force. In most countries, "police officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank. In some, the use of the rank "officer" is legally reserved for military personnel. [1]
The policy under which police officers in England and Wales use firearms has resulted in controversy. Notorious examples include the Stephen Waldorf shooting in 1983, the deliberate fatal shootings of James Ashley in 1998, Harry Stanley in 1999, and Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005, and the accidental non-fatal shooting of Abdul Kahar in 2006.
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
Basic headgear for police officers is a peaked cap for men and a round bowler style hat for women. Caps and bowlers feature a hat band incorporating the Sillitoe tartan checkerboard design. This band is not worn in the Police Service of Northern Ireland, where female officers also wear a peaked cap of a different pattern.
The Federal Capital Territory Police appointed their first of two female officers on 18 April 1947, to be in plain clothes, and had powers as a probation officer. [10] [11] The Northern Territory Police Force was accepting female officers by 1960, as long as they were unmarried, and aged between 25 and 35.
Also: United Kingdom: People: By occupation: Police officers Officers in British police forces and services. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Police officers of the United Kingdom .