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The thin multi-coloured line

When Hamish Cormack joined the police in 1970 there were only eight women in a class of almost 100 officers, and the young faces taking the oath were uniformly white.

When Hamish Cormack joined the police in 1970 there were only eight women in a class of almost 100 officers, and the young faces taking the oath were uniformly white.