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A female detective in Britain has been fired and reportedly placed on a blacklist that includes rapists and murderers after she criticised her force’s LGBT policies as appeasing people with “cocks in frocks”. Detective Constable Rachel Fletcher has been fired for “gross misconduct” after she openly denounced guidelines from her former Northumbria Police force, in which supposedly transgender offenders could request to be strip-searched by a female officer. According to the Daily Mail, Fletcher was reported to a disciplinary panel by multiple male colleagues over her use of the phrase “cocks in frocks” when criticising the transgender policy of the...

Fletcher's brother's wife hired at cabinet MOVE REQUIRES WAIVER TO HIRING FREEZE By John Cheves HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER FRANKFORT - Gov. Ernie Fletcher's sister-in-law reports to work Wednesday as a political appointee at the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet. The move smacks of nepotism and hypocrisy, a representative of state employees said. The appointment of Rachel Fletcher, 60, to be one of three executive secretaries to LaJuana Wilcher, the cabinet's secretary, will require a waiver in the state-wide hiring freeze Fletcher ordered shortly after he took office. The $25,000-a-year job is "considered critical" though, so it should be filled, said...