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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