The experience of being a black woman in the police in Bristol has changed drastically in the past 40 years.

Here three black women – Beverley Douglas, the first black female Special Constable, Adora Pomphrey, the first female black police officer in the force, and Ayesha Giles, who is the current most senior officer – talk to Osob Elmi about their experiences.

Beverley Douglas joined Avon and Somerset police in 1983 and, after more than three decades, she retired in 2017.

Born in Bristol in 1964, to Jamaican parents, she was five when her family moved to Easton.

She describes herself as “a strong, black, powerful woman” from a family of strong black females.

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