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Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 11 February 1949. We are in the "closing arguments phase" of the local election campaign, deputy political editor Sam Coates says. With a record 50,000 female officers serving in the 43 forces in Merely months after the 1921 Census was taken, Lilian was vocal about giving female officers powers of arrest. Although there was little change or recruitment of female officers in the 1920s, more rules and guidelines were published to give them a clearer position. Her mother Julia was also in the household. Appointed in 1905 in Portland, Oregon, Baldwin was given a temporary assignment with the Department of Public Safety for the Protection of Young Girls and Women. The first women to be employed by the police were matrons. Today, you will hear first hand the experiences of The goal was to offer advice and support to women and children on the streets of London. Karpal Kaur Sandhu was 27 years old when she joined the Met Police force exactly 50 years ago. 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A police officer who embarked on a sexual relationship with a vulnerable young woman he met while on duty has been jailed for attempting to pervert the course of Edith Smith: The first female police officer Sofias tactics were criticised by Lilian Wyles. In 1883, the Metropolitan Police recruited its first woman in the role, and within six years had 14. But she had resigned, no reason given, from the Metropolitan Police in October of 1921, potentially ahead of her marriage. White stayed at the Bath office until May 1918, working under the supervision of Peto, as a Patrol Officer in the city. And if not, give it a watch to find the cops and robbers in your family tree. The image is courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. In her 14-year tenure in charge of its A4 (Women Police) division, their numbers were increased from under 60 to over 200, and it employed half the policewomen in the United Kingdom. These supervisors were also known as matrons. 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