Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1918 — WOMEN GOOD POLICE [ARTICLE]

WOMEN GOOD POLICE

Are Doing Efficient Service in Great Britain. X Annual Report of Inspector Praises Work in Combating Evils of War. London—The success of women on the police force Is amply demonstrated In the annual report of Sir Leonard 'Dunning. H. M. inspector of constabulary, just published. Seven counties and 24 cities and boroughs have women “on the strength,” and “their introduction into - professional police work.” says Sir Leonard, "may well help authorities to combat evils which have presented Increasing difficulties to them for years * While moat of the women are engaged la clerical work, others are igtven duties requiring the complete confidence of • woman or child, which

a woman can win better than a man; the maintenance of public decorum among girls, supervision over female servants’ registries, duties under the shop” hours acts, food control orders and the like, and supervision over placesOf amusement catering for children/ It is not, Sir Leonard hopes, suggested that women should be employed in the suppression of public order and the arrest of dangerous or violent criminals. With regard to the desirability of intrusting to them that part of the investigation of sexual crime which involves intimate conversation with the victim, the inspector declares that the police themselves were the first to recognize, this, but Until some years ago failed to find a woman of education who recognized this as a woman's work. Sir Leonard pays tribute to the fine work being done by the women police employed by the ministry of munitions, and refers also to the success of the efforts of the women patrols. He denies that the Increase of offenses by juveniles and the decrease of peijwnal chastity of girls are the

consequence of the war or that they have been aggravated by the war. For years past police reports-have laid stress on the decay of parental control and the influence of parents with a true sense of thqjr responsibilities doe* not seem likely to revive. Crime' 1* showing an upward tendency —reduced street lighting, bigamy, concealment of birth and infanticide, the latter directly due to circumstances of the war contributing.