
British police history: everything you wanted to know
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The Police Women's Uniform
In the fifties and sixties, there's a small group of police women under an inspector of constabuary called dorothy peto. They used to have kind of separate command chains, which would mean that there was a woman in the police force who could kind of keep the male senior officers under control. But with 19 75, ar takes away this kind of some of the protections that women had,. if anything, takes a step back in the seventies and eighties as well. By chriss i gont a run three quick fire questions past you before we move on. S meet your questions later.
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