Sislin Fay Allen was an inspiration for many when she became the Metropolitan Police’s first black female police officer, based at Croydon in the late 1960s.

 

In 1968, Sislin Fay Allen, a nurse at Croydon’s Queens Hospital, became Britain’s first Black policewoman.

 

Sislin Fay Allen was flicking through a newspaper in 1968 when she saw an advert for male and female police officers to which she replied.

 

At the time there were no black female officers so the mum-of-two sat down and wrote an application. Within a few weeks Sislin had made it to the interview stage, shocking her husband and family when she was accepted.

(https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/bhm-firsts/sislin-fay-allen-britains-first-black-policewoman/)

 

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