“Troop up!” Two words to gather the 31 fresh-faced women into a military formation that Cheryl Joyce boomed time and time again at the RCMP Academy, “Depot” Division, after she became part of the first female troop to take residence in September 1974. As the right […]
RCMP Mark 40 Years Of Women In The Force
“During that time I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew I wanted something different, something that wasn’t a desk job,” she said. With family members in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, she was able to see that there might be something […]
Ladies In Red: 40 Years Of Trials And Triumph
REGINA — Driving through a small town one evening, Jan Graham seemingly looked suspicious. She was in uniform and at the wheel of an RCMP cruiser. “The guard got a call that a police car had been stolen — because there was a lady driving,” she […]
Iowa’s First Sworn Female Officer Dies
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Loved ones will gather to remember Iowa’s first sworn female police officer, a Cedar Rapids native, later this week. Seventy-four-year-old Mary Patricia Armbrecht, or just “Patt” to friends, died September 14th. Family said she had been suffering from a number of […]
Sensational Vancouver Excerpt: Policewomen Protected Kids, Women
First female officers main job was to deal with ‘inappropriate, unfeminine’ behaviour “The Policewoman should be of a sensible temperament but have a sense of humour. She should be diplomatic, mature, well-disciplined, and resourceful. She must have an infinite amount of patience, but not easily […]
RCMP Celebrates 40 Years Of Women In The Force
Laura Boland fell in love with policing when she was a child. Born and raised in small town Nova Scotia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable saw the familiar Mountie uniforms all over her community. Then, in Grade 9, she went on a ride along […]
St. Paul’s First Female Somali Police Officer Has Critics And Fans
Kadra Mohamed walks into an old haunt, the Grocery and Meat Market on the city’s north side, where as a girl she shopped with her mother. She breathes in the heady smell of Somali spices, halal meat and the bread she has loved since growing […]
Joan Tucker, First Female Wilkes-Barre Police Officer, Dies At 69
Joan Tucker, who broke Wilkes-Barre’s glass ceiling as the city’s first female police officer, died on Sunday at age 69. Patrick Rushton, a spokesman for the Wilkes-Barre City Police Department Retirees Association, recalled Tucker as someone who “had a way of taking control of […]
One of Calgary’s First Female Police Officers Dies
Margaret Gilkes was a pioneer in policing whose boldness continues to inspire those who followed in her footsteps. In 1946, she was one of the first female officers hired by the Calgary Police Force where she served for 15 years. Gilkes, who went by Maggie, […]
Little Ferry Hires Its First Female Police Officer
LITTLE FERRY – History was made in Little Ferry on Tuesday night when the borough attorney swore in Jennifer Ali, the town’s very first female police officer, in front of an audience full of family, friends and supporters. As a resident who was born and […]
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First Ladies In RCMP
