“Someone mentioned that they were looking for policewomen and they dared her to put in her application,” recalled her younger sister, Fran Angel. “Forty-one years later, she retired.” Dumais, who died last Sept. 25 at age 78, was among the first women to wear the Ottawa police […]
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 […]
First Female Police Officer In Redlands Still Going Strong At 84
“Salute to Shirley Harlan! This is the earliest documentation I have so far of a female police officer carrying a gun in her purse.” – Jane Shirley Harlan, 84, the city’s first female police officer, recently rafted the Colorado River and shows no sign she’s ready for the rocking […]
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First Ladies In RCMP
