If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen was the title of the talk given by Cas Bailey, a former Staffordshire Police Officer.\u00a0 Cas spoke to SI Cannock &District at their September speaker meeting about her life in the Police Force in the 1970s, when being a white male was really the only thing to be!<\/p>\n
She told of her time as a Police Cadet in Walsall when she wasn’t allowed to do the College course as she was already over qualified for the job and when being the only female Cadet made PT sessions something of a trial! When she became a Police Officer in Walsall she was the only woman on the shift, the same was almost true when she became Sergeant and was moved to Wolverhampton. Her tales of life at this time were akin to the TV programme “Life on Mars” and had her audience roaring with laughter.\u00a0 45 years ago, life was very different to now – remarks and actions we would now consider sexist, ageist, racist were the norm –\u00a0Cas told her stories with a light hearted humour and a knowledge that mostly, no harm was ever meant by the things that were said or done.<\/p>\n
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