INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY INSPIRING INCLUSION
For a second year in a row, PFEW was delighted to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, by hosting a webinar, highlighting some of the incredible work and contributions made by officers, helping to support women in policing
plunge and in 2020 joined the training department. “When I started to
PC Lucy Walton, here and above right
The positive event, sponsored by Metfriendly, left delegates with one strong takeaway message overall: let’s foster a culture of helping one another and raising each other up.
Kickstarting the webinar, PC Lucy Walton, who was last year’s Women in Policing Award winner, spoke about her innovative and ground- breaking work, developing a bespoke course to support officers with Method of Entry training. Lucy, a Method of Entry, protestor removal and public order instructor from Lancashire Police, shared how when she first started the specialist role, she was the only female on her team. “At that time, there were no females on the Operational Support Unit,” she said. “I was very much on my lonesome.
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It didn’t bother me and it’s something I wanted to do. So, I thought I am going to have a crack at this. I am a firm believer that you only get one shot at life. “I absolutely loved it, and I was well included in everything. We all have weaknesses, we all have areas we are not as strong in, but as a team, that’s where your team effort comes into it.”
look at the Method of Entry package, I saw a disparaging contrast in
relation to females and males, with a high failure rate for females, so I began to look into the reasons why,” she explained. Lucy devised and sent out a survey to all female officers in frontline operations for honest feedback on the reasons why they hadn’t considering taking up a public order role.
“I know if you are asked whether you
After giving birth to her daughter in 2016, Lucy wanted to go back to her roots as a teaching assistant and was eyeing up a role within its Public Order Training Department. Lucy was initially hesitant due to the role being more male dominant but with encouragement from her colleagues and supportive line mangers, she took the
have passed and you haven’t you can feel silly. There is nothing to feel silly about.”
The main findings that came back included not being tall enough, not having the physical strength, the perception it’s a role for men, being intimidated by male bravado on courses and the stigma of failure. “I know if you are asked
whether you have passed and you haven’t you can feel silly. There is nothing to feel silly about. We can’t all pass everything first time and for some people it takes a lot longer – me being one of them,” she continued. “It not just about making people pass, it’s making it appropriate for people to come through our training doors and we know
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