rtages of civilians in the workforce following national conscription in the 1914-18 War than the missionary efforts of the moral reform crusaders or suffrage campaigners (Woodson 1993:217). Hazenberg and Ormiston (1995:62) report that the first policewoman employed in the Dutch police in 1911 followed pressure from women's groups because of changes in the law concerning sexual offences and the increasing number of prostitutes. Paleolog (nd:16) documents that it was the Polish Committee for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children's representations to the Government that was instrumental in the formation of the Polish Women's Police Brigade in 1925. The expansion of women's roles within policing often occurred through the intervention of key advocates. For example it was not until 1935, some twenty years after the introduction of women into the French police that the Prefet of the Paris, Roger Langeron, deployed women officers operationally (Dene 1992). In 1944, in Britain, a conference supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury was instrumental in stimulating the Home Office to issue a circular encouraging the appointment of more women police officers and greater use of their skills operationally (Radford, 1989). Sarkozi (1994) notes that women in the Hungarian police are still unlikely to be deployed in operational roles and are largely employed in support and administration functions. Bowron (personal communication) indicates that the striking factor about the nascent Slovackian police is the time warp evident in the position of women officers whose decorative presence were reminiscent of 1960s Adolly birds. Leonard et al (1993) observed that more women officers were engaged in patrol than evident from earlier visits. In that earlier visit Leonard noted the absence of women involved in front line roles. They quote the male commander of one local district in response to a question about women police: "policemen would simply gaze...
