{"id":143,"date":"2020-09-22T05:28:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/clarissamartins\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-09-23T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:44:18","slug":"the-first-women-in-the-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/clarissamartins\/2020\/09\/22\/the-first-women-in-the-rcmp\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Women in the RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

“In the 1890s, the Force employed women as matrons and jailers to deal with female offenders or to be part of an escort when female prisoners were moved from one place to another.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katherine Ryan commonly known as Klondike Kate was the first female to be hired by the RCMP to help “assist the North-West Mounted Police with the care of female prisoners at the Whitehorse Detachment in the Northwest Territories”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In the early 1900s, women were hired as fingerprint and lab technicians. Their duties ranged from answering phones and taking complaints to searching female offenders and providing meals to prisoners, as well as providing lodging and meals to visiting officials.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t until “May 23, 1974, Commissioner M.J. Nadon announced that the RCMP would begin accepting applications from women for regular police duties. Recruited from across the country, the first troop of 32 female police officers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today, approximately one fifth of the RCMP’s police officers are women, with more and more women in the senior ranks”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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