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Women in policing in Hong Kong

The Deputy Commissioner of Police, the second highest rank, is the top rank held by a women so far. In 2017, Chiu Wai-yin Winnie was the first women to be promoted to that rank.

History
The first women was recruited on 1 December 1949. She was Sub-Inspector Kimmy Koh, an ethnic Chinese from British North Borneo.

Following the refugee wave from the People's Republic of China to British Hong Kong in 1962,

Initially, women police were not charged with the duty of patrolling, thus they were paid less than men for doing less job. When the police handled the 1967 Hong Kong riots initiated by sympathisers of Communist Party of China, women police proved their worth by a velvet glove approach against rioters. Since 1974, men and women have been given the same duties and the same pay.