WOMEN who want a flexible and successful career in policing should specialise in cyber crime, a retired officer has said.<\/p>\n
Charlie McMurdie (pictured), who left the Met recently after 30 years, said the \u201cfuture is bright\u201d for women who have experience in technology.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI would say I had one of the most diverse teams in the Met. Women were running so many different aspects \u2013 surveillance, technology, forensics, strategy.”<\/p>\n
She told the Future of Women in Policing session at the Police Federation of England and Wales\u2019 annual conference:\u00a0\u201cCyber crime facilitates the opportunity for flexible working. It is 24\/7. It is global. It requires language skills. We can facilitate job sharing and part-time working. And when you look to move on from the police, the future is bright for anyone with that skill set.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conference also heard from GMP\u2019s first female, Asian police officer, Det Sgt Nita Jhansi-Garrod.<\/p>\n
Det Sgt Jhansi-Garrod told delegates she had defeated a world of racial and sexual discrimination in order to pursue a career she loved.<\/p>\n
She was called a \u201cstupid fucking Paki bitch\u201d at work and took her force to a tribunal for verbal and institutional abuse.<\/p>\n
And she said she was treated differently from her very first day on the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn my first day on division I was called in by the inspector and was given a talk. I was told: \u2018Welcome to the shift Nita. I hope you\u2019re not going to cause us the problems that your counterpart has caused us.\u2019 I later understood that I was being compared to another Asian officer. People like me were part of the problem. Not the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, she loved her job and said she knew she had made the right decision.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cIt is not all doom and gloom. There are loads of positives. You can walk through CID today and 50% are women. When I joined there weren\u2019t even that many on the force.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conference also heard from a PSU officer from North Wales Police who warned female officers not to put limitations on themselves when pursuing their dream roles.<\/p>\n
PC Sally Mulvaney said: \u201cWe need positive role models who can remind us we can do it and we should give it a go. I have had officers not wanting to go to jobs with me because they think I can\u2019t hold my own. Some think I will be scared of conflicts and don\u2019t want to go to pub brawls or fights. That I should only go to sexual assaults.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I wasn’t big enough or strong enough to do PSU. I tried it and I loved it. Four years into the job and joining the police is one of the best decisions I have ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n
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