The policewoman is now a familia: figure in the streets at home, but it has been forgotten, if iv was ever known, how she got there. Mrs. Louise Creighton writing on "Women Police" in the Fortnightly Re view," recalls the facts of her origin to mind. In the early days of the war it was realized that some special help was needed to care for women and children under conditions in which all ordinary life was disorganized. The first idea was that women should be sworn as special constables. But the law did not permit this. Finally the Metropolivan Chief Constable agreed to sign cards for voluntary Women Patrols, trained and organized by the National Union of Woman Workers, and the Home Secretary addressed a circular letter to the Chief Constables throughout the country, asking them to) follow this example and to give the patrols every assistance in their! power.
In these early days the women wore no uniform, but merely badge on their ordinary dresses with "N.ULW.W." upon it. Further recognition was long delayed. The authorities, even after the record of work done by the patrols had convinced most people of the success-of the movement, persisted in regarding it as an experiment, and rather a dangerous one at that.
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