Black History Month: 27 October 2020
Sislin Fay Allen, known as Fay Allen, was the black woman police constable in the United Kingdom, serving in the Metropolitan Police in London from 1968 to 1972. Allen was born in Jamaica before moving to the UK. Here she went on to work as a nurse at Croydon's Queens Hospital before deciding to switch careers after seeing a recruitment advert for male and female police officers. After training at Peel House, she was posted to Fell Road police station in Croydon. After a year in Croydon, she was posted to the Missing Persons Bureau at Scotland Yard for a while before being transferred back to the beat at Norbury police station.
In 1972, she resigned from the Metropolitan Police to return to Jamaica with her family. In Jamaica, she continued her policing career and joined the Jamaica Constabulary. She later returned to the UK with her family and moved to South London. Sislin has since returned to Jamaica again where she now lives.
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