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Once police forces had recruited a small number of women, they tended to organise them into separate units. Heres the story of Sislin Fay Allen. Notable women in the police forces include Cressida Dick, the former commissioner (chief) of the Metropolitan Police Service. Structurally segregated from the wider police organization, the de-professionalization and de-feminization of women as police officers ( Brown and Heidensohn, 2000; Emsley, 2002) hindered the pace of their progress. It seems Maud mostly dealt with adultery cases, but there were also rumours of her spying on suffragettes in London. It paved the way for other pioneering women police officers, such as the first women officer Edith Smith (1915), first inspector Florence Mildred White (1930), first Alice served twice in the Metropolitan Police: from 1919 to 1922, and then from late 1922 to 1930. 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