Mary Quintal

Mary Quintal (née Voon; born 1929) was an Assistant Superintendent of Police from 1961 to 1974 and a former badminton player.

Quintal was educated in Raffles Girls' School and initially aspired to be an interior decorator or a physical training instructor.

[1] She won the Singapore Badminton Association mixed doubles title with Ong Poh Lim in 1956.

[4] In 1950, she was chosen to go on a four-month trip to the United Kingdom to study police methods in Great Britain.

[7] By 1959, she was the only one of the original ten women to have remained in the force, and commanded the Woman Police Constabulary.

Mary Quintal, pictured in 1950