WOMEN POLICE
FIRST BATCH FDR DUTY A FINE TYPE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 2. The handicaps under which the detective stalls in the major cities have been working, particularly when investigating offences against women and girls, are likely to be somewhat lessened by the new women police, who have now completed their training. Three of the women will be stationed at Wellington, and will commence duties next week. The Commissioner of Police, Mr I). J. Cummings, said to-day that the ■women would be a very valuable adjunct. They were a fine type, both mentally and physically, and had been coached for four months in a great variety of subjects, including physical training and such branches of the law and regulations as were considered necessary to enable them to carry out their duties. They would not w.ear uniforms, he added, but would be attached to the detective staffs.
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Evening Star, Issue 24006, 3 October 1941, Page 8
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146WOMEN POLICE Evening Star, Issue 24006, 3 October 1941, Page 8
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