Inspector Audrey Canney
She was one of Plymouth’s earliest policewomen, and rose to become Inspector of the two-woman police department in the Plymouth City force which had been created in the Great War and survived until 1921, when it was ended as part of a cost-cutting measure by the Watch Committee. Operating both in uniform and plain clothes, Inspector Canney was a resource for the women and girls of Plymouth to come to for advice, especially in relation to work and workplace disputes, and also as detectives monitoring prostitution activity in the City.