And in January, specially trained women police officers were deployed at key junctions to win over the public.
Four in 10 women police officers have considered leaving the force because of low morale, a survey has suggested.
Earlier Tuesday, Valls traveled with President Francois Hollande to the Var area, in southeastern France, to pay tribute to two women police officers who were killed in the line of duty in June, BFM reported.
Ms Wilding, in post for eight months and one of only four female chief constables in England and Wales, said she was leading a mentoring programme aimed at encouraging more women senior police officers.
Speaking at the annual conference of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales (PSAEW), Mrs May said direct entry was "not just about more women police leaders or more senior officers from ethnic minorities".
Women also serve as military police officers.
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Only a few months earlier, I explained, the paper had wrestled with what to do about the Troopergate allegations that Clinton had routinely used state police officers to procure women for sexual trysts.
Birnberg Peirce and partners have commenced legal action against the Metropolitan Police on behalf of eight women who were deceived into having long term intimate relationships with undercover police officers.
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The Independent Police Commission consulted 3, 410 women officers in England and Wales for the study.
He had earlier announced that each of the 166 police stations in Delhi would have women officers available at all times, and that more women would be recruited across the country.
Women's groups say other measures like punishing police officers who refuse to take action on a rape complaint, and speeding up court procedures against rapists, would be more effective.
Most of the women, who are also suing the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) as well as the Met Police, were environmental campaigners.
Diab said after the film was first shown in Egypt many women told him they would now report incidents, and police officers said they would take such reports more seriously.
There are about 1, 500 women officers serving in Afghanistan's Western-funded police force - a number which the interior ministry wants to increase to 5, 000 by 2014.
And what was particularly impressive to me was that these women were basically facing down scores of stick-wielding police and undercover security officers.
Last year the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) found at least 2, 600 women working as prostitutes in England and Wales had been trafficked.
Nearly 4% of women of reproductive age are infected, as are more than one in 10 police officers and soldiers.
Government is the police officers who are protecting our communities, and the servicemen and women who are defending us abroad. (Applause.) Government is the roads you drove in on and the speed limits that kept you safe.
Walid, who defected from the riot police, is quoted in the report as saying that officers bragged about raping women during raids in the city of Daraa, the birthplace of the anti-regime uprising.
Mr. Kumar highlighted several police initiatives to address women's safety, including plans to hire more women constables and officers and add more telephone help-lines for women to call in complaints.
Two women have been killed in a shoot-out that also left a gunman dead and two police officers wounded at a courthouse in the US state of Delaware, police have said.
Dr Turner and Mrs Davies have called for an inquiry into their treatment by Barbadian police and why officers kept insisting on Mr Crawford's guilt long after the women told them he was not the attacker, and when there was no forensic evidence linking Mr Crawford to the crimes.
Officers will be trained to spot women who are forced to work as prostitutes and the police are also expecting a rise in domestic attacks, rape and sexual assaults following increased drinking during the Games.
When police searched his home in Crookham Road, officers found 2, 248 photographs he had taken of women.
Female police officers also play a crucial counter-insurgency role in Afghanistan, for example body-searching women at checkpoints and government facilities.
Despite being one of just a few women in the Rio de Janeiro military police, she has risen through the ranks, commanding more than 100 male officers.
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I've seen it in our teachers and firefighters, nurses and police officers, small business owners and union workers, I've seen it in the men and women of our military.
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