article_snippet: PC Suzie Ranyard, 34, left, works as an armed response officer one hundred years after Margaret Damer Dawson, right, helped form the Women's Police Service.
article_snippet: Della Cannings, a WPC with Devon and Cornwall Police, reveals: 'One superintendent told me it was better to employ a police dog than a policewoman because a police dog than a policewoman stayed for longer in the organisation than women and women didn't answer back.'
article_snippet: her department head ' said said it was a waste of taxpayers money because of all the training I had,' Barbara recalled. '
article_snippet: As a fire arms officer PC Suzie Ranyard said Suzie Ranyard feels Suzie Ranyard has to 'prove' Suzie Ranyard 'and compete with the males' Women can work across all departments from murder investigation to firearms.
article_snippet: One woman who serves in the latter is PC Suzie Ranyard, 34, an armed response officer for East Midlands operational support services.
article_snippet: One woman who serves in the latter said One woman who serves in the latter loves One woman who serves in the latter job - but despite living in an age if more equality - still feels One woman who serves in the latter has to prove One woman who serves in the latter at times.
article_snippet: One woman who serves in the latter said: 'It's quite a hard specialism to get into and rightly so because it's such a responsible job, you could potentially take somebody's life. '
article_snippet: Training is tough you are constantly being analysed.
article_snippet: As a female officer you feel you have to prove yourself and compete with the males. '
highlights_snippet: Trained police dogs seen as more useful than WPCs, says one woman .
  