Practice to Progress marks International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.

IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group or organisation specific.

In policing, the diversity and equality of all officers have never been more important. The National Police Chief’s Council is currently delivering against its Diversity, equality and, inclusion strategy for 2021-2024 which aims to help forces across the country to:

• Reflect and understand the different communities in the working population of England and Wales.
• Tackle under-representation at all roles and levels of our workforce, including in relation to age, disability, gender and gender expression, ethnicity, religion and belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
• Encourage and enable the development and progression of all of our staff, and we will implement positive action to provide equity of opportunity.
• Live our values (collaborative, open, inclusive, and innovative), ensuring that our attitudes and behaviours enable all staff to be their true selves at work.
• Ensure that our processes, policies and procedures are fully inclusive and that we have diverse representation on our key decision-making bodies.
• Ensure that DEI is central to the development of our new products and services, which we will assess for equality impact.
• Systematically review and redevelop our existing products and services

The strategy quotes that “Equality means ensuring equity of access to opportunities within our organisation and inclusion means removing barriers and creating a culture where people feel comfortable and confident to be themselves.

Here at Practice to Progress, we are passionate in supporting this strategy and striving to support all police staff and officers in their career and development journeys, this includes helping police forces to increase the number of female officers and staff to improve diversity and equality in forces in England and Wales.

Within the team at Practice to Progress, we work with a number of former female police officers and staff and today we would like to raise awareness of the fantastic work that they do. The team has many years of experience between them to help you progress through your career, so take a look at our team today and get in touch if you would like to discuss how we can help you. https://practicetoprogress.com/about/our-team/

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