North Yorkshire Police are looking to recruit more women to firearms teams and specialist operations.
Currently firearms support is 6% women, firearms training is 10% and 17% of specialist operations staff are female.
Overall, 39% of North Yorkshire Police officers are women.
Here's Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police, Scott Bisset:
Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police, Tim Forber, said women are well represented at the top rung of the force:
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A local football club has been given just four months to find a new pitch after a parish council ended its agreement to use the village playing fields.
Former manager of a Filey care home, Michaela Golding, 58, of Greenfields Avenue, Osgodby, has been jailed.
A new mobile defibrillator and water rescue throw lines will strengthen safety and emergency preparedness across the 330-acre Burton Constable estate.
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