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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sarah Ward

Pioneering ex-police officer who ‘drove progress’ returns to her old beat

One of the first female police drivers in Scotland told of her joy at being able to do her job without a male chaperone after she helped smash the glass ceiling in the 1950s.

Mary d’Arcy Kincaid, 91, started out as a police officer in Edinburgh in 1953, at a time when women had to rely on male colleagues for a lift – or get the bus.

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