Sex-change officer quits police - after learning she'll get WPC's pension

A former Paratrooper who joined the police as a woman after having a sex change has threatened to quit the force because of a row over her WPC pension. 

Jan Hamilton – who used to be 16-stone Ian Hamilton – launched a tribunal action after being told she could not transfer her old pension to the police fund because it was still in a man’s name. The 46-year-old left the Army in 2007 after 20 years with the elite Parachute Regiment. 

She joined the police two years ago after sailing through the selection process, impressing chiefs with her physical prowess and high academic test scores. 


But the former soldier – who has now changed her name again, to Abi – was unhappy because the bureaucracy could not cope with her sex change and has been refusing to accept documentation from her gender operation in Thailand.     More Read