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1986 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Entering the Police

verfasst von : Sandra Jones

Erschienen in: Policewomen and Equality

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Until integration, the separate organisational arrangements which governed the employment of women police officers meant that in effect a quota system was operated such that women constituted only a small proportion (approximately 5 per cent) of the overall police workforce. The major consequence of the Sex Discrimination Act was that policewomen’s departments were integrated into the main stream of policing thus removing the existing restriction on their numbers.

Metadaten
Titel
Entering the Police
verfasst von
Sandra Jones
Copyright-Jahr
1986
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18452-1_3