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Grace Elizabeth BREBNER
Born: 1914
Died: 1984
Special Achievements:1950 - First woman detective in the Victorian Police Force.
1951 - The first female detective in Australia.
1956 - The first police woman to pass her police driving test.
1967 - First woman to reach the rank of Inspector.
1973 - The first police woman in Victoria to be awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM), for meritorious services.
1942 - Grace Elizabeth Brebner began her police force career.
1956-1974 - Officer in Charge of Women Police.
Awarded Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Resources
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Image - Grace Brebner
Photo provided by, and used with permission of, Victoria Police Museum.
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Image - Grace Brebner
Photo provided by, and used with permission of, Victoria Police Museum.
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References
Past and Present Women [brochure]. (n.d.) Ascot Vale, Victoria: Police Association of Victoria Inc.
Summers, Selena. (1974, June 5). In retirement, Miss Brebner tends her garden. Australian Women’s Weekly, 7.
The Australian Women's Register. “Brebner, Grace Elizabeth (1914 - 1984)”. accessed 4 November 2020.
Victorian Collections. "Record of Conduct and Service (Grace Brebner)". accessed 4 November 2020.
State Government of Victoria. "Women in policing". accessed 4 November 2020.
The Age. Woolley, Colleen. "Victoria Police: sexist from the start". accessed 4 November 2020.
Victoria Police. "Women in policing". accessed 6 December 2020.
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Document - Women wounded on thin blue line.
Davis, Bridget. Women wounded on thin blue line. Sunday Age. October 18, 2015:39.
Davis, Bridget. Sunday Age
