Human Rights A Day

Nicole Juteau becomes Quebec’s first woman provincial constable. Nicole Juneau was born in Laval in 1954 to a father who was a fire fighter. Her desire to do police work was not easy to fulfill, as no women had yet entered a police college in Quebec. However, on September 11, 1975, Juteau broke the barrier when she was sworn in as the first woman police officer in the Quebec provincial police force. She encountered numerous obstacles, from being unable to find a uniform that fit her to being assigned administrative duties. She also found only one male constable willing to work with her. Even so, Juteau worked in organized crime and became an expert on biker gangs in Quebec before she retired in 2001. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.