When a 25-year-old female constable arrived in a bus full of officers, she saw people sprinting along the roads carrying TVs and laptops.
The police assigned a female constable as a liaison between the police and the victim, who remains in Manali, to provide the "required security" for the victim.
In a similar vein, a female constable who had been on duty in Birmingham city centre during the riots said: "Normally we get people spitting at us and being horrible to us, being scared of us and not looking at us.
"The idea is that if any woman calls saying that they have been harassed on the street, at college or elsewhere, we will send police help immediately," said Meenakshi Sharma, a female constable who answered the women's hotline in Panchkula, which has yet to receive any calls for help.
Other abbreviations: PC (for both male and female police constables), Sgt, DS (Detective Sergeant), Insp, DI, Ch Insp, DCI, Supt, Ch Supt, Det Supt (Detective Superintendent), DCS.
The number of female police constables in the country was only 84,479 out of 1,585,117 officers, or about 5 percent of the total police force in 2011.
The deaths of two female police constables have brought into focus the unarmed status of most British police.
The scene is a stark contrast to the taut first meeting on-stage between the always-engrossing Maureen Beattie's protagonist Isobel McArthur - Scotland's first female chief constable, now world-weary and approaching retirement – and that possibly-framed nemesis Alfred Chalmers, a disconcertingly genial Philip Whitchurch.
Yes, we are aware that in 1984 female British constable, Yvonne Fletcher, was assassinated with a burst of machine-gun fire from the Libyan Embassy.
