VALUE OF WOMEN POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 14

VALUE OF WOMEN POLICE.

■g" : — . The National Council of Women *has ~ just, issued a schedule on the employment of -women police as part of the London and provincial police forces. The question of women police is likely to be ; discussed in Parliament before long, as it ; is one of the subjects on which most cf . the women members have definite views. '. .Many towns, states the schedule, have reduced the numbers of their policewomen, and fifteen have given them up altogether. Some of the comments of the various "; ."' chief constables whose reports are embodied in this schedule make plain the usefulness of the policewomen as. a part of the regular forces. The Chief Superin- '■ tendent of Birmingham writes'! that nis '; ■■■•<' policewomen are "doing great;' work" and "are in touch' with cases police cannot ■;'-,; deal with." The Chief Constable of Shropshire says the. policewoman is "a ' very useful adjunct from the social wel- ■■••"' fare point of view," and does much useful ; • work in preventing boys and 'girls Jajpßing'v '■•[' into crime. This work, the-Chief Con- " stable adds, "if not done'by policewomen would not be done at all." An interesting : point is found in the report of the : '"•'■-■ Northampton Superintendent, who says that be is strongly in favour of the employment of women police, but considers that '"they should be of the educated ,-''..: classes." v Worthing police authority says "My one policewoman is a boon to thousands of women and children," and Carlisle says that the women "work most harmoniously with other members of the .: force."