WOMEN POLICE FOR PARIS.
A municipal councillor lias formally proposed that Paris should have women police, and is confident we shall soon see them on their beats. The councillor is M. Armand Massard, and as he is also president of the French Olympic Committee, it is not surprising that he envisages muscular recruits. He already forsees the fair section of the Paris police in sports competition with foreign policewomen, and need go no further than London to find opposition. It uld be wrong, to condemn the idea because of its novelty. Women police in. London have given most valuable service. Even the music halls are reconciled to London's women in blue. In the early days, no programme was supposed to be complete without a "hit" at them. Since those days, male legislators have frequently praised women police. But it is a moot point j whether "femmes agents" would survive' the sharp blades the satirists of Paris, flourish. The pretty policewoman might j be accused of provoking crime, since fori many she might rob arrest of at least some of its terrors. )
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 10
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