ASKING WOMEN’S AGES
Advice To Police LONDON, November 25. British policemen have been urged not to press the question of age when interviewing women. The advice comes from the “Justice of the Peace Review,” a Magistrates’ journal. It says this when commenting on the case of a woman summonsed for a parking offence, who asked the Court whether an officer could compel her to admit her age. The publication comments: “Since the police have no power to demand it as a matter of law, it seems to follow that a defendant who refuses to give it cannot be said to be committing the offence of obstructing the policeman in the execution of his duty. “There are cases in which the the defendant is material to the offence alleged, such as that of driving while under age.
“Then there is obvious justification for the inquiry. But generally we should consider it to be a question that may be put but not pressed.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28446, 28 November 1957, Page 21
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