WOMEN POLICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 18

WOMEN POLICE.

The employment of women police in considerably greater numbers than at present, not only for patrol work, but for general and special detective duty, is a gratifying recommendation of the recent commission on police powers and procedure, reports a London daily paper. Modern police administrative methods, systems of handling sociological problems and modem scientific methods of crime prevention and detection comprise a profession which has for some years past attracted numbers of public school and University men. The recommendation of women on special and general detective branches now offers a profession for women qualified in sociology, and the technique of criminology. As a special committee reported two years ago, women police have not only im proved the efficiency of the force in dealing with special problems, such as the increasing number of girls, who, through lack of parental control, come into contact with crime and vice, but in criminal investigation women have shewn a better measure of success than men.

A number of women police officers, attached to the C.1.D., have been active in the suppression of the illicit drug traffic, in cleaning up night clubs, and in dealing with fortune telling charlatans and similar pests; and in several recent crimes women have achieved detective work of a highly technical nature. In Lancashire, the county police already maintain a woman’s branch of the detective service, and in several other provincial cities women detectives co-oper-ate with male officers of the C.I.D. w fin ■■■■ Efl flB w rc ei nr.—■-» m: —■ nu —— tn,— bi ■■-■w;.