Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:
Female leads in popular crime drama series on television has encouraged a surge in women signing up to become detectives with Britain’s largest police force.
More women than men have signed up to Scotland Yard’s fast track scheme, even though they make up around a third of normal applications.
Shows like The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson, have been credited with the increasing numbers of women applying.
The Met has faced a detective recruitment crisis, with a shortage of investigators in CID units, so announced last year it was to become the first in the UK to try the scheme, which means they are not required to do two years in uniform on the beat. [J4MB emphasis]
How do you get more women into any line of work? Easy. Make the position seem glamorous, lower the entrance requirements, offer flexible working… Mike writes:
What will the women who become detectives do when they find out the work isn’t like a TV programme – sue the Met, blame men, or both?
Justice for Men & Boys 
Agreed. I can’t see these women investigating drug barons or gun runners, can you? Altogether too dangerous.
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TOO TRUE! The vast majority of women don’t like jobs that are dirty, dangerous, or hazardous; research the web and you will find this out.
I’d bet that deeper investigation will show that the applicants for these jobs are attracted by the “glamour and excitement”, the power of the position, and expect it to be “just like on TV”. I highly doubt that they are aware of the hard investigative work and long hours that the job requires, let alone the responsibility (and time and practice) that safely handling firearms requires.
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Just another transfer of authority from male figures to female ones then. Of course, who actually does the work is another question…
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They probably think they will be investigating crimes against fashion.
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More than any other single measure, the ‘Fast Track’ scheme has contributed to the decline the British police. Once we had the finest constabulary in the world. Now we have a gang of servile, politically-correct lickspittles, bowing and scraping to the Common Purpose of their political masters.
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Agreed – and the feminisation of the police force has surely contributed to the series of miscarriages of justice where the police haven’t sought or handed over social media evidence that men didn’t sexually assault women (not that male police officers are much better).
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They are aware that these dramas are fiction, aren’t they? Oh, come to think of it, this is the MET: they should be right at home.
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Yes, but they LIKE fiction you see Nick.
Playing at something is fun, isn’t it?
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They’ll be as available as female vets; there will a lot of no-go areas.
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I know that there has been a big increase in the number of women detectives portrayed on TV but surely it’s time to increase the number of female villains. After all if fictional characters affect the behaviour of real people then surely the fact that men commit most crimes might be due to the negative portrayal of men in the media. Hence it is not our fault when we do something wrong but its just that we have been conditioned by years of TV and films portraying us like that .(yes I know that’s nonsense but I made the mistake of reading the “Guardian ” recently and it seems to have done something to my brain.)
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Female villains are anathema to the feminist ideology, because the entire basis of feminist political power is that ‘females are ALWAYS “Victims” ‘. “Victimology” is holy writ in the religion of Feminism, and is NOT to be questioned!
Even if a female commits a crime, it’s NEVER her fault or her responsibility, it’s ALWAYS because some man / men or ‘The Patriarchy’ “made her do it”.
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oh this is going to be fun to watch it fail
being a detective means long hours on the job( not suited for so many women)
and I wonder what the divorce rate is for detectives ? is it as bad a bus drivers ( 70%)
there are a reasonable number of good detectives who are good for reasons other than their gender( and yes that will include male and female), but this fast track scheme will emphasis gender and make it silly.
I am also curious as to how they will handle the issue of false rape/ assault allegations.
will they screw it up like the current group and sympathize too much with the political agenda of the CPS ?
but bless…. female detectives could never make mistakes according to feminist ideology.
I have to ask, the powers to be.
Do they really lack critical thinking skills about why there is a recruitment problem?
despite having a police force that is supposed to have such critical skill in order to do their job( or in some case they don’t)
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Perhaps they imagine they’ll be fast tracked onto working with David Duchovny on The X Files?
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