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Cressida Dick appointed as first female Met Police chief In 1919, the Metropolitan Police recruited 110 women to be unattested policewomen (i.e. In 1911, her widowed mother was head of the household at 44 Shorrolds Road, Fulham, and Florence was a tie maker. Her father and brothers were all serving policemen, key evidence we found in our census records. Scotland Yard Celebrates First-ever Sikh Female Police Officer Until 1999, women in the police force had their rank title prefixed with the word "Woman", or the letter W in abbreviations (e.g. The incident was the first in the United Kingdom in which two female police officers were killed on duty. Perhaps she was on holiday, taking a well-deserved break from catching criminals? The image is courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. In 1914 Peto joined the National Union of Women Workers and made patrols herself. Once police forces had recruited a small number of women, they tended to organise them into separate units. 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