Knowles, Bob; Courtney, Finn; Sterry, David (2018). Edith Smith Britain's First Warranted policewoman (PDF). Oxton Society. p.5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-03 . Retrieved 3 December 2019.

I have always been clear that reform is not just about spending cuts, but about making policing better for police officers and the communities they serve.Lanier, Mark M. (1996). "An Evolutionary Typology of Women Police Officers". Women & Criminal Justice. 8 (2): 35–57. doi: 10.1300/J012v08n02_03. Gemma Blok, Kehrer, Meta, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Kehrer,_Meta [19/10/2017] So I want to encourage everyone here to play their part, play your part, in encouraging female police officers, and supporting them in taking up a variety of roles. 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. Further guidelines were published by the Home Office in 1931. [22] Dorothy Peto moved to the Metropolitan Police in 1930 and became the first attested superintendent two years later. 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. In 1948, women were for the first time permitted to join the Police Federation. Foster’s role is being abolished next year, with oversight for policing passing to the West Midlands mayor, the Conservative Andy Street.

Advertising". Torres News. Vol.X, no.37. Queensland, Australia. 21 September 1982. p.15 . Retrieved 19 December 2021– via National Library of Australia. years on, I wonder what those first trailblazing women would think if they were here now among women who occupy some of the most senior positions in policing today.The introduction of Competence Law in 1923, which formally guaranteed women all positions in society, was not applicable in the police force because of the two exceptions included in the law which excluded women from the office of priest in the state church - as well as from the military, which was interpreted to include all public professions in which women could use the monopoly on violence.