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parents work, what time they get
home, who their friends are. There
was one woman sergeant whose patrol
included a Coventry Street fun-fair.
She was looking around when she
caught the eye of a girl. The girl
looked startled, turned to hurry away.
The sergeant followed and questioned
her. She asked where the girl was
living. The girl mentioned a square
in Paddington.

The sergeant had been stationed in
Paddington not long before. She
knew the square and she knew the
type of people who lived there. The
girl didn’t fit in at all. Neither did the
name of the aunt with whom she said
she lived strike a chord in the police-
woman’s memory. She detained the
girl—who turned out to be on the
police “wanted” list.

Girl With An Accent

This same policewoman pricked up
her ears one evening when she heard
another strange girl talking. The girl
had a northern accent, quite out of
place in her surroundings. Asked
where she was living, the girl gave a
local address. The policewoman knew
it as an undesirable house for a young
girl. Women police are also involved
in the more straightforward forms of
law-breaking. They are still proud of
the part that one of them played in
the arrest of the notorious burglar,
“Flannelfoot.” .

The women’s other tasks include in-
terviewing and obtaining statements
from women victims of sex offences,
supervising and escorting women
prisoners and searching women sus-
pects.

Sometimes the unexpected happens.
A neatly dressed, very much painted-
up youngster was brought into a
London police station recently and
passed over to a policewoman to be
searched. The policewoman gave up
the search very suddenly and, with a
slightly pink face, called for a male
sergeant.

“You'd better finish the job your-
self,” she said. “It’s not a girl at all.”

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It was, in fact, a youth impersonating
a woman.

Make-Up Is Allowed

The policewoman of today is a long
way removed from the hard-faced,
primly costumed woman cop of comic
legend. She is smart, attractive, and
retains her femininity. Scotland Yard
stresses that the qualifications include
not only courage, commonsense and
willingness to learn, but also “good
looks,” a well-groomed appearance
and a flair for wearing clothes.

The policewoman is allowed to
wear make-up and does. She is also
allowed to wear perfume, but no ex-
amples are recorded of any police-
woman taking advantage of this con-
cession. Her uniform is made to
measure by a West End tailor. She
can do her hair anyway she likes so
long as it is rolled above the collar.

Her pay begins at £4 14s. a week,
rising to £6 15s. if she becomes a
sergeant and £7 8s. after five years in
that rank. As an Inspector she can
earn up to £510 a year. There are
extra allowances for _ plainclothes
work, and rent allowance for those
living out.

The bar on marriage has been re-
moved. Some of the women marry the
policemen they meet in the course of
their work. Several are mothers.

Recruits come from a variety of jobs
and backgrounds. Sergeant Mary, in
charge of physical training at Peel
House, was, until ten years ago, a
governess with a private family at
Hastings. She found more excitement
and better prospects in the police.

One young sergeant in the East End
was an ex-factory worker. A girl at
another station had been a cook in a
private house for nine years; another
had been book-keeper and a recep-
tionist at a hotel. A C.L.D. officer
had been a bank clerk.

Many have come from the Services
and the Land Army. They are girls in
search of a life with a touch of ad-
venture and excitement. They seem
to be getting plenty.

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