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Florida Agency Adds First Female Motor Officer

July 28, 2010

Gregory, a married mother of two who became an officer at age 40, has been riding bikes for fun for a few decades. She has completed her first 80 hours of training on handling her 850-pound Harley-Davidson Road King for the department.

First Female Michigan Trooper Recounts Pioneering Career

July 4, 2010

Christiansen said it was an adjustment to dress in the post's boiler room and earn the respect of male troopers. She eventually won most of them over, she said.

Iowa PD's First Female Officer Tells Her Story

February 8, 2010

As the first female officer of the Waverly (Iowa) Police Department, Holly Fisher said she's looking forward to serving. In the spring of 2009, she spoke about filling in roles that only a female officer can.

Pioneering Women of the LAPD

July 28, 2009

The first female police officer in the country with arrest powers, Alice Stebbins Wells, arrived in 1910 with the Los Angeles Police Department. By 1937, the department employed 39 policewomen. Women are serving in most areas of the department; they have yet to crack the elite SWAT unit, but a 2008 report led to 12 women being accepted into the training program that feeds the unit. These photos, which show several of the pioneering police women of the department, have been provided by the Los Angeles Police Historical Society.

A Different Shade of Blue

July 10, 2009

San Francisco Chief Announces Retirement

December 22, 2008

San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, who rose through the ranks to become the city's first female chief nearly five years ago, announced her retirement Saturday on a radio program hosted by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Sandra Hutchens Chosen as Orange County Sheriff

June 12, 2008

The Orange County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors made the appointment in a split 3-2 vote that, even with its final two candidates of Hutchens and Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters, revealed a choice for an outsider who had no ties to former Sheriff Mike Carona.

The Longest Climb

October 1, 1996

It's a tough journey to the top, but women cops are slowly working their way up the law enforcement ladder.

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