Tall police and police boxes

I’m sure that policemen used to be taller in the 50s and 60s and that most of them we around 6’ (that’s 6 feet, which is about 183 centimetres). I also think that policewomen (and, remember, in the 50s and 60s, we did not talk about police constables, it was a policeman (PC) or a policewoman (WPC)) were not expected to do the same things as policemen and – please tell me if you know – were not paid as much as the policemen. Of course, as they did not have mobile phones or radios, they had to use the police boxes (many of you will know them only as the Tardis in Doctor Who) which were blue and placed in visible locations; the PC could, I think, make a call from the outside by opening a key locked phone or enter the box through a door – no idea what was inside. There was a light on the top of the box which very occasionally flashed – but I do not know why.