Premise - Frontline Burns

"Stories like this cannot be found in official histories of the RCMP. In fact, little is known about the history of women in Canada's iconic police force." -Bonnie Reilly Schmidt “Women on the Force” article — Posted March 15, 2016

Frontline Burns is a period police drama based on the life of one of Canada’s first female RCMP officers, Donna Burns (Morse). 

The series would follow Donna’s life from her decision to leave her “dead-end occupation” as a bank teller, through many of the groundbreaking, rewarding, and traumatic events of her 21-year (1974-1995) service. Such as male colleagues’ initial struggles with whether to protect her as a woman or treat her like a partner; her single-handed arrest of a “berserk” man where bystanders watched to see how she would handle the situation; her involvement in a rape investigation on request by male officers who realized the value of her presence; her experience with sexual harassment by another officer; her identity as one half of the first married Mounties; her choice to hide her first pregnancy for five months to remain operational; and her call to a graphic traffic accident which turned out to involve her partner, leading to Burns’ temporary loss of vision and muscle control (undiagnosed PTSD), following which she returned to active duty.