Silly but the bbc has lost the adjective "female".

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Maybe it fell behind the sofa?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7kdn7767jo

Women cops, women detectives.

Female police officers would have sealed the deal ages ago...

Hmm anyway.

Looks like they might have changed the title again to make it make sense. Is AI translating the story then someone human eventually edits it?

Somebody at the BBC (probably a man) has heard that we don't like - or many of us don't like - being referred to as "females", so they've decided to do away with it as an adjective too!

Yes but... the article itself is about women, referred to as women, and women police officers helping trafficked and abused women.
It's heartening to read statements like:
He believes that sex trafficking victims, particularly teenage girls, feel more comfortable giving details to a female officer.
and the absence of the word 'female' from the headline didn't bother me. I did think the headline came across as a bit Cagney and Lacey but the article itself made up for that

First and foremost this is an uplifting article about (mainly) women helping trafficked women.

"Women" is used throughout in its usual sense and "female" is used interchangeably with "women".
I don't see the problem, I'm afraid, OP.

I've started seeing this a lot. Talk of one thing and an unrelated moral high ground is used to shut it down.

In what way does pulling anyone up on bad grammar negate that the article is up lifting?

Of all places, the beeb.

The bbc is still used as a beacon of King's English around the globe and it has a title referring to "women cops".

Puhlease.

"The bbc is still used as a beacon of King's English around the 🤣🤣🤣 ah lads don't stop. Literally fell off a chair laughing at the idea is outside of UK looks to the BBC as a beacon of Kings English.

News flash they're thousands of versions of English and the local one will always be the "beacon" 🤣🤣🤣

So your reason for posting this article on the FWR Sex and Gender discussions board is because of bad grammar/bad English?

Iff not, you're going to have to explain what your beef is, because your original post is not enlightening either.

I’ve never in my life heard or read the phrase “men cops”.

The bbc has its problems but I think you're making something of nothing here, OP. A quick search on the bbc app for 'female' shows it in plenty of recent headlines.