Sheila Ward

{{Short description|British police officer (1936–2019)}}

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Sheila Ward (1936–2019) was a British police officer and the first female officer in the Metropolitan Police in London to hold the post of station inspector, commanding a police station in Kings Cross.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uv8jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4GYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6963,1730260&dq=barbara-kelley+police&hl=en "British Police Are Facing Female Chauvinism", Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 5 July 1974] She was appointed following the disbandment of the separate Women's Branch and the integration of women into the general force in 1973. She ended her career as a chief superintendent in command of the Community Relations Branch.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030507192929/http://www.psi.org.uk/publications/archivepdfs/Democracy/DEMPOL3.pdf "New Policing Responses to Crimes Against Women and Children"]}} Ward was also a self-defence instructor.