A WOMAN POLICEMAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 25 October 1912, Page 3

A WOMAN POLICEMAN.

According to the Standard, Strasburg, the stately Alsatian capital, is to have a woman assistant for the police force, whose salary is to come partly from the funds of* the local Committee for Public Morals, a private association, and partly from the State Exchequer. The assistant is to hnve a special office where she may. receive reports on the irregular morals of servant girls and shop assistants, whom she is then to visit in order to convey words of warning, as well as sympathetic counsel to the weaker \ictims of temptation. By the co-operation of the Public Morals Committee, the assistant is also empowered to find suitable employment for these women. Another of her duties will be the interrogation of first offenders, who, by the provisions of a special, decree, will not.be led before the Police Court. She may also be called upon, by the mothers of head-strong girls to report on their doings. But police work in the strict sense of the term is not the greater part of her duties. Provided with a fund of a few hundred pounds, the new assistant is to be something of a Police Court missionary, something of a guardian angel to all the women who come within her ken as being out of harmony with the law.