Winifred Barker

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CPM
Head of A4 Branch (Women Police), Metropolitan Police
In office
December 1960 – 25 May 1966
Personal details
Born
Winifred Theodora Barker

(1910-10-02)2 October 1910
Chelsea College of Physical Education
OccupationPolice officer

Winifred Theodora Barker

CPM (2 October 1910 – 8 May 1995) was an English police officer. She was the third commander of A4 Branch (Women Police) in the London Metropolitan Police, from 1960 to 1966, and the second woman in the United Kingdom to hold the rank of chief superintendent.[1][2]

Early life and education

Barker was born on 2 October 1910

Chelsea College of Physical Education and moved to New Zealand, where she taught physical education for seven years.[4][5]

Career

When

Colonial Police Medal (CPM) in the 1959 New Year Honours.[7]

She was called back to London in 1959 to replace Sophie Alloway as the deputy commander of Scotland Yard's Women's Branch.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 1965 New Year Honours.[9]

Barker retired on 25 May 1966, being succeeded by Shirley Becke,[10] and moved to Somerset.[5][11] She died in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, on 8 May 1995.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "Met Police Female Police Officers history". Police Firearms Officers Association. Chatteris, Cambridgeshire: Chatteris Police Station. 2017. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021.
  2. ^ Birmingham Daily Post, 13 October 1964
  3. ^ a b "England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007:Winifred Theodora Barker". Ancestry.com. May 1995. registration #A51, entry 149. Retrieved 1 July 2021.(subscription required)
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  7. ^ "No. 41589". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1958. p. 34.
  8. ^ a b "Police Part In Finding Neglected Children". The Times. No. 55856. London. 12 November 1963. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  9. ^ "No. 43529". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1964. p. 32.
  10. ProQuest 910184766
  11. ^ Reading Evening Post, 25 May 1966

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Preceded by Commander, A4 Branch (Women Police), Metropolitan Police
1960–1966 		Succeeded by
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