‘we were thrown in at the deep end’

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO…

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

At the age of nine, Terri White fled from violence to a woman’s refuge. Today, she talks to Jess Phillips , Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls

Making the tea, wearing stockings and suspenders... after 30 years in the Met police, Kathryn West* has written a book revealing what it’s really like to be a woman on the Force and how she’s seen attitudes change over three decades...

AMY REYNOLDS LEFT AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP, BUT THE OFFICER ASSIGNED TO HER CASE HAD AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE

This week marks Armed Forces Day and DIANA WORTHINGTON shares her experiences of moving up the ranks…