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- The Women's Police Service (WPS) in the UK was a national voluntary organisation of women police officers which was active from 1914 until 1940. As the first uniformed women's police service in the UK, it made progress in gaining acceptance of women's role in police work.
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In England and Wales, 31.2% (40,319) of police officers were female on 31 March 2020. Previously, policewomen made up 28.6% in March 2016, [2] and 23.3% in 2007. [2] Women also make up a majority of the non-sworn police staff. Notable women in British police forces include Cressida Dick, the former commissioner (chief) of the Metropolitan ...
In March 1889, fourteen more women were employed to act formally as Police Matrons. Their duties, hitherto undertaken largely by the wives of policemen, were to supervise and search female and child offenders while in police stations and the courts.
Feb 15, 2019 · There are currently 8000 female police officers working for the Metropolitan police. That's 27% of the workforce. In the UK as a whole, 30% of the police force are woman.
The Women Police Service (WPS) was founded in 1914 by Nina Boyle from the Women's Freedom League, and musician and philanthropist Margaret Damer Dawson. By 1915 trained Women Police volunteer constables and officers were in uniform on the streets of towns and cities across the UK, patrolling outside munitions factories, railway stations and ...
- The Role and Responsibilities of The Women Patrols
- Risk of Disbandment?
- Prejudice and Criticism
- Footnotes
- 20Speople at The National Archives
The duties of the Women Patrols were very different to that of male police officers. As a precis by Macready, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, stated: While many praised the valuable work undertaken by the Women Patrols on matters related to women and children, such work restricted women to traditional female concerns. The reference to an i...
After only three years in operation, the Women Patrols risked being disbanded altogether. In early 1922, the Home Secretary, Edward Shortt, was urged by the Geddes Committee (a Committee on National Expenditure) to disband the Women Patrols as a way of economising. The Geddes Committee recommended the ‘Removal of all women holding positions as Poli...
Women police were often met with resistance from male police offers and members of the public, who did not believe their presence was necessary. Frederick Mead, the Metropolitan Police Magistrate, argued that: Others were more positive about their role. The superintendent at the Cannon Row police division praised the welfare and preventative work t...
Letter from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to the Home Secretary, 18th October 1918, MEPO 2/2671, The National Archives.Precis by Sir Nevil Macready, 26 February 1920, MEPO 2/2678, The National Archives.Louise A. Jackson, ‘Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century’ (Manchester, 2006), p. 18.Metropolitan Police (Women Patrols) Application for Enrolment, 17 February 1922, HO 45/11067/370521, The National Archives.20sPeople at The National Archives explores and shares stories that connect the people of the 2020s with the people of the 1920s. Accompanying the release of the 1921 Census of England and Wales, 20sPeople shows what we can learn by connecting with those who have gone before us. Find out more at nationalarchives.gov.uk/20speople.
Aug 1, 2024 · Women in UK Policing since 1915. Research undertaken by Professor Louise Jackson has led to increased knowledge and understanding of the role of women in UK policing since the First World War. Since the publication of her 2006 monograph, Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century, Professor Louise Jackson’s ...
Jun 17, 2014 · The First World War changed women’s lives in profound ways as they entered occupations previously reserved for men. Mrs Edith Smith was one such pioneer. She was the first woman to be sworn...