SYDNEY POLICEWOMEN.
THEIR INSTRUCTIONS. Instrui tions issued to the recentlyappointed Sydney policewomen:— 1. To keep young children from the streets, and especially at night. 2. To assist in the prevention of truancy from school. 3. To watch the newspapers and to put detectives on the track of those who are apparently endeavouring to decoy young girls by advertisement or by any other means. 4. To patrol the railway stations and wharves when long-distance trains and steamers come in,, in order to guard and advise women, girls, and children who are strangers and have no friends waiting for them. 5. To patrol slum neighbourhoods and to look after drunken women and to obtain assistance for their neglected children. 6. To keep an eye on houses of ill fame and on the wineshops and hotels frequented by women of the town, in order to prevent young girls from being decoyed and drugged with liquor or entrapped. 7. To protect women and girls in public parks, and when leaving work in the evening 8. To assist, when practicable, in enforcing the rules concerning pedestrian tiallic.
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 242, 18 August 1915, Page 15
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