One of the first female police drivers in Scotland told of her joy at being able to do her job without a male chaperone after she helped smash the…
ONE of the first female police drivers in Scotland told of her joy at being able to do her job without a male chaperone after she helped smash the glass ceiling in the 1950s.
She applied and following discussion with the then chief inspector, she was accepted onto the course, but recalled some resistance from colleagues.In 1957, she went to Cyprus for a year along with three other women officers, to help with recruiting and training female police officers there, and to assist with searching women at roadblocks.
Mary, who now lives in Gloucestershire, returned to Edinburgh to be given a tour of her old patch and visited St Leonards Police Station, made famous by Ian Rankin novels.Assistant Chief Constable Emma Bond praised Mary for “driving progress” in the police when she joined 70 years ago. “This really meant that I no longer needed a male police constable to drive me to a job, take a bus, or walk – I could drive one of the many CID vehicles.”
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