Interview: Better maternity support would attract more women to service

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Interview: 'Better maternity support would attract more women to service'

New national maternity guidance has just been approved by the NPCC and is due to be rolled out to forces imminently. Ahead of its release, Police Oracle spoke with one of the driving forces behind the guidance, DS Keri Alldritt.

Date - 24th June 2022
By - Cachella Smith

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“We’re trying to attract females to policing, we should have around 50-50 numbers. In terms of gender, we’re actually just over 30 per cent females – so we’ve still got a way to go with that,” DS Keri Alldritt...

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