The truth about being a police detective

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO…

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...

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

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

I’d love to see more of the world, I’d love to learn to play a musical instrument and I’d like to live abroad sometime. Even if it’s just for a short while, it would be great to embrace somewhere new.

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