Winifred Barker

Chief Superintendent
Winifred Barker
QPM CPM
Head of A4 Branch (Women Police), Metropolitan Police
In office
December 1960 – 25 May 1966
Personal details
Born
Winifred Theodora Barker

(1910-10-02)2 October 1910
Tisbury, Wiltshire, England
Died8 May 1995(1995-05-08) (aged 84)
Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England
EducationChelsea College of Physical Education
OccupationPolice officer

Winifred Theodora Barker QPM CPM (2 October 1910 – 8 May 1995) was an English police officer. She was the third commander of A4 Branch (Women Police) in the London Metropolitan Police, from 1960 to 1966, and the second woman in the United Kingdom to hold the rank of chief superintendent.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Met Police Female Police Officers history". Police Firearms Officers Association. Chatteris, Cambridgeshire: Chatteris Police Station. 2017. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021.
  2. ^ Birmingham Daily Post, 13 October 1964