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Women Power Sweeps The Police Force

                  DESPITE the nature of the job of a police officer, women have not shied away from the profession. In fact, of the many years of service, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for the first time has appointed six women as divisional commanders. They are: Senior Superintendent […]

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America Needs More Female Cops

                  When David Kassick, an unarmed 59-year-old, was fatally shot by a Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, police officer during a routine traffic stop in early February, his case barely registered a blip on the national radar. By then, nearly 100 other Americans had already lost their lives at the […]

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Top Woman Cop’s New Sexism War With Old Force

                  A former Chief Constable is at the centre of an extraordinary row with her old police force after a night on the town with a female officer who was accused of being drunk and disorderly. Sue Sim was enjoying an evening in Edinburgh with the serving […]

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She’s A Lawyer, She Adores Oprah Winfrey… Enter Nigeria’s First Female Police PRO

                  Olabisi Alof-Kolawole is the first female force public relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force following her appointment on Friday by Solomon Arase, the inspector general of police. The law gradate succeeds Emmanuel Ojukwu, who is now the commissioner of police in Kogi state. Alofe-Kolawole, who […]

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India’s Haryana Sets Up All-Women Police Stations

                  On Friday, the northern Indian state of Haryana inaugurated all-women police stations to deal with crimes against women in all its districts. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey reports from Gurgaon. A two-storey building in Sector 51 of this bustling city is being given a fresh coat of […]

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Surrey RCMP Welcomes Its First Female Superintendent

                  SURREY — Carol Bradley is the Surrey RCMP ’s first female superintendent. Bradley is the detachment’s new operations support officer and is one of 26 female superintendents in the RCMP across the country. Bradley said she decided to become a police officer in 1984 after working […]

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1st Women To Pass Ranger School Are Army Pilot, Military Cop

                  FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) — The first two women to pass the Army’s notoriously difficult Ranger School impressed male classmates left in their dust during road marches and proved their mettle as teammates by helping carry heavy weapons when others were too fatigued to lift another […]

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Police Command Changes Put More Women In Charge

                  Three of the five day-to-day operational command posts within the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service are now held by female officers, including a police superintendent’s position and the recently promoted commander of the Cayman Brac police station. Long-serving Acting Superintendent Angelique Howell had the “acting” removed […]

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Women On The Beat: How To Get More Female Police Officers Around The World

                  Rizwana Hamid was 20 years old when she applied to join the police force in Pakistan. It was 1996. Two years before, Benazir Bhutto had established the first women’s police station in the country, but there were still few other female officers. She can still remember […]

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Scotland’s Top Female Cop Says Women Will One Day Make Up The MAJORITY Of The Force

                  The prediction comes on the day a 12-page Record pullout celebrates 100 years of women fighting crime. Police Scotland deputy chief Rose Fitzpatrick is a candidate to replace Chief Constable Sir Stephen House when he retires in September next year. And Fitzpatrick – who cut her […]

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