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Female Ontario Cops Tell Researcher That Boys’ Club Still Persists

      “I find it heart breaking that current female police officers, in many police forces and counties, are not much better off than my generation of female police officers were in the 1970’s. Until Chiefs of Police, First Constables and Commissioners are held to account for “old boys clubs”, things will not change. […]

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Amal Chammout: First Female Police Officer To Wear Hijab

                  Rabat – Amal Chammout recently became the first uniformed policewoman to wear a hijab on duty. Chammout’s picture went viral on social when she was announced as the first female police officer to wear the hijab in the United States. Dearborn, Michigan, is known for having […]

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D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier Steps Down To Work For The NFL

                  D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced Tuesday that she will step down next month to take over as head of security for the National Football League, leaving behind a legacy of community engagement that endeared her from the city’s crime-ridden neighborhoods to the broader national […]

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Adair’s New Cop Makes First Female In Department History

                  Aug. 2 marked a milestone for Adair Police Department and for Cassandra Cookson. Tuesday, the Chelsea native officially became Officer Cookson, accepting her first law enforcement job as the newest patrol officer with Adair PD. She was born in Alaska but grew up in Chelsea before […]

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Laurel’s Highest-Ranking Female Officer Says Goodbye To Police Department After 25 Years

                  Laurel Police Capt. Constance Speake, the city’s highest-ranking female officer, said she has had to work extra hard to prove herself a worthy asset to her law enforcement colleagues over the last 25 years. But, Speake said, her natural competitive and persistent attitude was an aid […]

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Police women will celebrate 75 years in the New Zealand police in a parade in Wellington on Monday

                  When Valerie Redshaw moved to New Zealand from the London police in the 1960s, she was shocked at how antiquated the force’s view of women was. Retired and current female police officers marched to Parliament House on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of women in […]

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Female Police Officers Save Lives

    “Some thought provoking U.S. States. Some thought provoking comments by Katherine Spillar as well. Well said Katherine.” – Jane Hall     A HUNDRED years ago this week, Georgia Ann Robinson joined the Los Angeles police force, making her, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, the nation’s first African-American policewoman. At first she […]

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Eva O’Connell, 1st female Holyoke police officer to carry gun, work streets as detective, dies

                  Eva M. O’Connell, a retired Holyoke Police Department lieutenant and the first female officer to carry a gun and work the streets, died Tuesday. She was 74. “Eva served the city nobly for decades as a police officer rising to the rank of lieutenant,” City Council […]

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Durham Appoints First Female Chief Officer In Force History

                  A POLICE officer has made history by becoming the first female chief officer in her force’s 177-year history. Chief Superintendent Helen McMillan has been appointed acting assistant chief constable with Durham Constabulary. The 49-year-old is stepping up into the post after Deputy Chief Constable Steve Watson […]

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Police Department Hires First Female Officer

                  SPRINGVILLE—For the first time in nearly 15 years, the Springville Police Department has a female officer. Mindy Jendrowski officially started in the department on July 5, she will be riding along with another officer for about a month, while she gets her bearings in Springville. “I’m […]

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