LONDON WANTS TOUGH WOMEN POLICE
LONDON, April 14
One hundred and thirty-five young women, tough enough to hold their own in a fracas and yet attractive enough to don evening clothes and mix inconspicuously in night clubs, are being sought in London for the women’s branch of the Metropolitan Police Force. . They must be. 21 or more. sft 4ih or more, without spectacles, educated and British. Their beat will be the exciting area withing a one-mile radius of Piccadilly Circus and their patrols will take them to young girls’ haunts, often in lonely spots. “They are not welfare workers. They can make arrests,” said the woman police superintendent.
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Grey River Argus, 16 April 1948, Page 3
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