WARTIME POLICE
SCOTLAND YARD WOMEN LONDON, Nov. 24. . More women are being taken on the staff at Scotland Yard, releasing men for the services or for active police work. A hundred women were recently recruited, and the number employed at the Yard now is nearly 20(1 Women are also doing clerical and telephone duties in (Metropolitan Police ■ stations. So many young officers were eager to join the Royal Air Force or the Fleet Air Arm that Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner, agreed to release a limited number by stages. More than 650 have already volunteered to become pilots or observers and are training. More are going. Many have gone to other branches of the forces.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20660, 10 January 1942, Page 6
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115WARTIME POLICE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20660, 10 January 1942, Page 6
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