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Handbags and whistles: life as a female cop in the 1970s

Until 1975, women who ed the Scottish police force became a member of a separate ‘Policewomen’s department’. Its were all single women, mostly left to the business of directing traffic and looking after lost children.

“Who are you sleeping with?”

Women officers discuss the experience of being in the Scottish police force in the 1970s.

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