at policing appears to change the women rather than vice versa. From Price's analysis, women appear to be less aggressive and manage violent confrontations better than men, are more pleasant, respectful to and communicate better with citizens than men, but that none of this appears to influence men's style of policing. DESPERATE REMEDY It has been pointed out earlier that various crises affecting the police have been associated with increases in the recruitment of women officers in greater numbers.. Recruiting women was seen as one solution in a period of low morale and poor pay. With the new emphasis on community policing and quality of service evident in British policing, it is noteworthy that the moves to change the police culture have embraced what might be considered feminising influences. Brown and Waters (in press) draws attention to the "Getting Things Right" a document issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers of England and Wales in which reference is made to the need to loosen the grip of the past military based hierarchical culture of the police but rather to empower staff through consultation, support and trust staff . Brown (1995) reports the speech given by the Commander of the Belgian Gendarmerie, which had recently admitted women, noting that the integration of women was held to be especially important as this created a reflection of society more appropriate to the police service to a Gendarmerie transformed from its military past. Influx of refugees and increases in illegal immigration has been associated with expansion of numbers of women police officers in other, notably Asian countries (Aleem 1989; Calderwood 1974) and these conditions presently prevail in former Soviet Bloc countries. Gregory (1995) points out that recruitment for police forces in Eastern Europe is made especially difficult because officers are required to be untainted by association with the previous communist regimes and also problems of...
