| Description | Typed notes regarding the appointment of women police in 1922 who were attached to the Royal Ulster Constabulary, but 'although described as police women do not patrol on the outlook for breaches of the law. The particular duties on which they are engaged include taking statements from women and children involved in sexual cases, escorting female prisoners, looking after juveniles on probation, attending to women jurors, enquiring after unfortunate girls charged with street offences, accompanying the uniformed police in the execution of search warrants under the Larceny and Firearms Acts, making detections in fortune telling cases, and such other duties as can be appropriately carried out by them', 7 August 1935. |
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