Although women weren’t allowed to become police officers until 1917, a new book explores their vital role as ‘searchers’
For nearly 200 years, the vital role that 19th century female detectives played in the police force has been overlooked and underestimated.For nearly 200 years, the vital role that 19th century female detectives played in the police force has been overlooked and underestimated.
“Women don’t officially enter the police force as officers until 1917.
Lodge found evidence of Lovsey and other female searchers’ undercover work. While uniformed policemen were employed to be very visible on the street and were often known to criminals, the presence of a working-class woman in the underworld of Victorian society was often unremarkable – and underestimated.
“The judge compliments her and says that she’s an excellent witness,” said Lodge. In a newspaper report, Dunaway was also compared favourably with prominent female writers and reformers of the time: unlike them, she had showed herself “capable of a man’s work”. Lodge added: “They half-jest in court that there’s a new ‘department’ of the police: a ‘female detective’. This is the 1860s, and people are already anticipating that women will join the police.
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