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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1926, Page 5

Recent writers are pointing out how the advent of Belgian refugees in 1914 and the birth of the policewoman movement are inseparably connected. “Afterwards came the huge military camps, demobilisation, and finally Cologne, where women police were placed. It is pleasant to read how the new force responded to every call when it came, and how ( in every case, prejudice, 'and hostility began to disappear before the work of the uniformed women. The organisation was in the hands of a. self-constituted council of three, and was fortunate :n its chiefs-. The protection of women by women was the root principle underlying the whole programme we laid down. The work of women police is not the same as that of men, and their employment is never to be, used as an excuse for employing more men police. That is the rule Which those pioneers laid down. The patrolling of the Strand, London, during the few months following? the Armistice was one of the worst tasks the policewomen had to undertake, but it was said of them then, “They have been able to deal successfully with drunken soldiers and sailors when all others had failed. Often the policewoman could turn' disorder into calm by*the power of her eyes. She did not even need to speak.”