WOMEN POLICE TO GO

Southland Times, Issue 19481, 3 April 1922, Page 7

WOMEN POLICE TO GO

“USELESS AND UNNECESSARY.” LONDON, February 16. There is not much doubt that, as a result of the outspoken and intelligent comments of the Geddes Committee, the women’s police force will be disbanded (says the Dunedin Star’s correspondent). In London that force numbers over 100, paid very nearly on the same scale as the men for all ranks, and, in the deliberate opinion of most people, utterly useless and unnecessary. The whole idea originated in the insane desire of certain feminist extremists to demonstrate “sex equality,” and it has been developed on grotesque lines. Instead of trying to make the women’s police force —if such anexperiment was justified at all —something distinct and characteristic, working on lines peculiar to itself and its legitimate aims, it has been made a silly parody of the male police force. We have grown used to the Spectacle of women constables, garbed exactly like the men constables so far as possible, stalking aimlessly about the West End, with an absurd .adaptation of the police stride. The main, part of their work has been to tell mirth-smitten inquirers the way to the next street. But though the authorities apparently mean to disband the force, the feminists are agitating furiously to have it retained, and one argument actually put forward is that, abolition would be uneconomical because of the waste of ready-made uniforms!