WORK FOR POLICEWOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 8

WORK FOR POLICEWOMEN.

LADY BUNTING ENDORSES A. NEW YORK SUGGESTION. . . The proposal recently put forwarder Miss Lilian.Wild that a corps.of policewomen should be formed tii deal with vice in New York li«s created much in-, terest among, the pioneers in this country of the movement for the repression of tho , white slave traffic. '•'I should like )the experiment to bo > tried here," Lady Bunting told a Lon-' don "Daily News and Leader" repieselt-; tative, "for in certain cases women ran, do very useful work in putting down tho • evil. There is .110 doubt that a, woman can detect another woman much quicker than a man. "But where the assistance of a policewoman or an officially authorised person of the female sex would prove most valu-, able is in that branch of rescue work which consists of enlightening young girls who have taken the wrong path merely through ignorance or because thev lmvu allowed themselves to be ton easily flattered. Lady> Bunting expressed tho view that a woman would bo able, for instance, to discriminate between a dressed-up nursa ' and a real one, while it was very possible that sho would find means to get access to certain suspected houses'more readily than a male detective.