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Sex discrimination in the police

01 January 1991

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Sex discrimination in the police
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A report in the magazine, Personnel Management, reveals that
while the overall number of women in the police service has
increased from 5.4% in 1975 to 10.5% in 1988, the proportion of
women police above the rank of constable has fallen from 11.2%
in 1971 to 5.8% in 1988. The finding comes at a time when
Britain's most senior woman police officer, Alison Halford,
assistant chief constable of Merseyside, is taking a sex
discrimination case to an industrial tribunal, alleging that she
has unfairly been passed over for promotion three times in two
years. (Times 30.7.90 and Independent 6.8.90)

Institute of Race Relations, Police-Media Bulletin, no 63

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