WOMAN'S ANGLE

* By JOHNK. NEWNHAM x

ROM ONE END of Britain to
F the other, police forces are busy

on a recruiting drive. But it is
not only men for whom they are look-
ing. There is a shortage of police-
women, too. At the moment there are
less than a couple of hundred police-
women in London; about a thousand
in the provinces. The immediate aim
is to increase these numbers by sixty
or seventy per cent.

With violence figuring high in post-
war crime statistics, the need for more
women in the police is not immediate-
ly apparent. Yet they are urgently
needed, not only because they are
quite capable of dealing with tough
customers if they have to, but also be-
cause there are certain police jobs for
which women are much better suited
than men.

The woman’s angle in crime is an
important one. As is shown, for in-

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stance, in the case of “My Lady.”

“My Lady” is seen often in London’s
West End. She has been in police
hands several times since she left the
East End, usually for absconding from
approved schools. They nicknamed
her “My Lady” because of her airs
and graces.

She was doing nothing to incur the
disapproval of the law when she
strolled through the West End re-
cently, a little too flashily smart to be
fashionable, despite her New Look
clothes.

A woman police sergeant passing by
recognized her and gave her a pro-
fessional once-over. The ensemble was
pleasing to the eye but spoilt by an
obviously expensive pair of dark-
brown shoes. They definitely did not
go with the rest of the outfit.

So the sergeant asked questions; and
the girl came up on a theft charge for
having stolen the shoes from a hotel.
It was the result of a commonplace
piece of observation on the part of the
woman police sergeant—but one
which would have been beyond the
scope of most men.

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If you ask the police authorities
what they think about policewomen,
they will tell you that they have no
idea what they would do without
them, especially now that adolescent
crime is on the increase.

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comes from the knowledge they gain
on the beat,’ says Superintendent
Elizabeth Bather, Superintendent of
Women Police at Scotland Yard. They
get to know their neighborhood in-
side out. Almost every woman’s face
becomes familiar to them, and they
can pick out a newcomer immediately.
A lot of missing and wanted girls have
been quickly traced this way—especi-
ally girls who have run away from
home and from approved schools.

Women police watch the children
grow up. They know where the

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