Critically evaluate and discuss the following statement.

“One important route to reform is increasing the numbers of policewomen…Our position is derived not from a feminisation thesis, i.e. the belief that more women means a different and more feminised police culture will evolve, (Dick and Nadin, 2006) but from a practice based perspective, which sees women as having a fundamental impact on the dominant, taken for granted, work practices which are the chief carriers of some of the more problematic and troublesome aspects of contemporary policing and police organisations” Critically evaluate and discuss this statement. Quote taken from: Dick, P., Silvestri, M and Westmarland, L (2014) Women Police: Potential and Possibilities for Police Reform. In Brown, J (ed) The Future of Policing, London Routledge This book is available from the library as an ebook