This study is based on a qualitative method to investigate how female police students and female police officers experience gender norms and how they are attributed gender roles during their education and in their workplace, which was done with semi-structured interviews. In summary, our study concludes that the female police students and female police officers are aware that gender norms exist within their profession. Because of these norms gender roles are assigned, and depending on one’s gender the individual is expected to have specific characteristics, which both produces and reproduces gender roles. Because of these norms and structures, gender differences arise that affects women, partly how others expect them to act and how it affects their work assignments.