Pretty faces of young police women appear at the picket line. In a saner world they might ease the mood of simmering violence. But these girls known they take the same risks as policemen and their presence merely makes more stark the ugly sight of a howling mob tring to get at fellow working men. Increasingly policewomen are sharing the toughest duties with their over-worked male colleagues and yesterday they were in action on the front lines from Ravenscraig steelworks in Scotland to the port of Wivenhoe in Essex. f their presence can provide the gentle temch to calm tense and petentially vielent touch scenen they are happy. But if not, then mounted pelicewoman like Mary Glenn and lorralne hamllion at ravenscraig willl give a gentle touch of theirown - to thir herses' franks. time and again yesterday they cased their horses forward to brack up the walls of police to clear the way for seal lorries. The pickets in KLanarkshire know that pretty faces don't mean faint hearts. Four years ago this month a woman constable took part in the cavairy style baton charge at Hampden park when mounted police broke up 1,000 rampaign savages at thge Rangers v Celtic cup final.In England mounted women police are rarely used in such fishpoint saituations. But Women share tghe actiobn and danger of - police on foot. Spome times the woman make the ultimate sacrifice. Yesterday Metropolitian Police Commissioner Si Kenneth Newman remembered Woman Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher fgunned down outside th Libyan Embassy, as he presented two other Women Police Constables with high commendations - Scootland Yrad's top bravery Constable Janet Cranmer, 30, and Juliet Renton, 26, praised for the CVarner and Lacey style action when. unarmed they defead shots to chase and arrest gunmen who stiole $25,000 from a London bank.
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Photo is dated 5-4-1984.
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