WOMEN POLICE IN NEW YORK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1904, 19 November 1918, Page 4

WOMEN POLICE IN NEW YORK.

ARMED AND EQUIPPED.AS MEN. Now York has at lust the real policewoman—policewomen uniformed as policemen and equipped as policemen—receiving a salary of .L‘2so a year (stall's the New York Evening Po.-i)? There are six of them, and the announcement of appointment was made in August by Richard E. Emvrighl, Police Commissioner, who believes that the employment of women is jus( anecessary as men for the detection or prevention of crime in big; cities like this. On and after January (here will be twenty policewomen uniformed and armed and vested with all police authority, and, later there will be many more. "Until the employment of policewomen has passed the experimental .'(age," said Commissioner Enright, they will work under the direction of the Fifth Deputy of Police. They will he assigned to work in zones into which the city is jo he divided for their activities. The duly of the policewomen will he to gel in touch with the women’s eluhs and other women’s organisations interested in the proper protection of girls and women, and seek their co-operation. She will be a sort of superintendent hi her zone, directing such of the women as are assigned to aid her by tiie clubs or organisation--. Her duties will have to do, among other tilings, with tracing missing girls and women, protecting girls from annoyance in subway and elevated trains and in street, ears, aml aiding in the prevention ami detection of crime affecting girls and women, “Tim employment of women for police work - has come (o he a necessity. We have round that women do a certain character of work far better titan men are able to do it. The women will wear a. blue uniform, the regular police shield, ami will be equipped as policemen are, 1 intend to have a special badge made for I hem, later on."