Commander Daphne Skillern, new head of Porn Squad

Aug. 08, 1977 - Woman to head Scotland Yard Porn Squad; Commander Daphne Skillern, 49, the highest ranking policewoman in Britain, has taken over the A3 department at Scotland Yard which included the Porn Squad'. Her appointment is one of a series of changes affecting senior Yard officers announced yesterday. Miss Skillern, who joined the police in 1949 and became a commander in 1974, said that a few years ago the appointment of a woman as head of the Obscene Publications Squad might have shocked the police and the public who would have regarded the post as unladylike'. Photo Shows Commander Daphne Skillern at her desk at Scotland Yard last night

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