On This Day, 17 March 1917

Evening Despatch

Saturday 17 March 1917

WOMEN POLICE. THEIR APPOINTMENT URGED IN BIRMINGHAM.

A resolution in favour of the appointment of women police-officers in Birmingham was passed at a meeting which took place at the Grand Hotel last evening and at which Mr. Steel-Maitland presided. Miss Darner Dawson, Commandant Women Police Service, London, and Lady Nott Bower, who had been striving to get the movement on foot for some years, explained that it was not intended to compete against men police, but to take up those duties which were particularly suitable for women. Mr. J. Kesterton, representing the Birmingham Trades Council, said he was afraid Birmingham had not a very progressive Watch Committee. It was quite time the experiment was made. Bishop Hamilton Baynes also supported the resolution.