Police Women (TV series)

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Police Women
Genre Documentary
Country of originUnited States
Production
Executive producers
  • Jon Beyer
  • Julie Laughlin-Jones
  • Julie Link
  • Tom Forman
Running time40 to 44 minutes
(excluding commercials)
Production company RelativityREAL
Original release
Network
ReleaseAugust 6, 2009 (2009-08-06) 
April 13, 2013 (2013-04-13)

Police Women is a collective title of an American reality documentary series on the TLC network that follows female members of law enforcement agencies in different communities, at work and at home. Camera crews film them doing their everyday jobs. It is similar in most respects to COPS , a long-running reality show on the Fox Network that also documents the work of police agencies in the United States.

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Series

Clip specials

Between the Cincinnati and second Broward County series, TLC presented three clip specials, featuring the best moments from the first five seasons of the series.

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