To Protect & Serve

History: Famous female police officers in Canada include trailblazers like Rose Fortune, the first unofficial policewoman (early 1800s), and Annie May Jackson, the first hired female officer (1912). Modern pioneers include Bev Busson, the first female RCMP Commissioner, and Brenda Lucki, the first permanent female RCMP Commissioner.

Women have made significant contributions to the RCMP over the years, and in the 1890s, the Force employed women as matrons and jailers to deal with female offenders or to be part of an escort when female prisoners were moved from one place to another. On September 16, 1974, 32 women across Canada simultaneously took the oath to become police officers, fundamentally changing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police forever.

For all the female’s out there doing this work…THANK YOU for your Badassery! Be sure to add this tee to your personal arsenal.