She served for three years in the Women's Royal Air Force, before moving to London to train as a dental hygienist.

[1] She claimed to have faced discrimination on the basis of sex in her new post, however, and did not get on well with Chief Constable Kenneth Oxford.

Despite repeated attempts she failed to win further promotion, after which she brought a sexual discrimination claim.

She faced disciplinary proceedings from Merseyside police, which a High Court judge stated "had the smell of unfairness about [them]".

13 of the European Convention on Human Rights against the UK in respect of telephone tapping committed by the Merseyside Police in order to find evidence to dispute her sexual discrimination complaint – this violated her art.

[6] Halford was selected to contest the Delyn constituency for the Welsh Labour Party in the new National Assembly for Wales in December 1998.

[11] Also during her term in the assembly, she called for AMs and MPs to receive the same rate of pay,[12] called for anti-aircraft guns to be place around North Wales' nuclear power stations,[13] and lead a campaign for the Gold Cape of Mold to be returned from the British Museum to North Wales.

[19] In March 2001 it was announced she was under investigation for charges of assault, after a January 2001 incident involving a taxi driver.

She became an adviser to the Conservative Party and their Shadow Secretary of State for Wales on home affairs.

She was convicted of misleading an inquiry into the behaviour of Patrick Heesom, former independent leader of the council.