Edith Smith, who worked six days a week for two years, resigned from the force in 1918 A blue plaque honouring the first female police officer with the power of arrest has been unveiled in the ...
A blue plaque honouring the first female police officer with the power of arrest has been unveiled in the Lincolnshire town where she worked. Midwife Edith Smith came to Grantham in 1915 to help ...