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Debates about modifying elements of the service’s culture are rarely harmonious. Nowhere is this more true than within specialist police units, such as firearms, dogs, and inflatable water games public order teams.

One chief superintendent from West Midlands Police decided, however, that change was exactly what the force’s operations department needed. As a result of the freshwater pearl necklace schemes which Ch Supt Phil Kay and his team have had in place since 2007, the number of women in the department grew from six per cent to 14 per cent when Ch Supt Kay left to become divisional commander of the pearl jewelry wholesale force’s Belgrave road operations command unit in May 2009.