D. CITIES HAVING POLICE MATRONS ONLY Astoria, Oregon Attleboro, Massachusetts Grand Forks, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota Lewiston, Maine Lincoln, Nebraska Little Rock, Arkansas Mason City, Iowa Meriden, Connecticut Milwaukee, Wisconsin Newark, New York New Rochelle, New York Norfolk, Virginia Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pomona, California Quincy, Illinois Redondo, California Somerville, Massachusetts Waterloo, Iowa Watertown, New York Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Williamsport, Pennsylvania Wilmington, Delaware Yonkers, New York F.-CITIES HAVING BOTH WOMEN POLICE AND POLICE MATRONS Akron, Ohio Atlanta, Georgia Atlantic City, New Jersey Denver, Colorado Grand Rapids, Michigan Haverhill, Massachusetts Nashville, Tennessee New Bedford, Massachusetts Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Portland, Oregon Providence, Rhode Island Richmond, Virginia Rochester, New York Washington, District of Columbia Worcester, Massachusetts APPENDIX II Typical Civil Service Examinations for Women Police 1 UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Series No. 2, June, 1921 POLICEWOMAN EXAMINATION FIRST SUBJECT THESIS Directions to the Competitor-Read Carefully Competitor must fill these blanks: Time commenced......Date........Examination No....... Time finished...... Place of Examination.. (City or Town) (State) N. B.-Do not write on this sheet. Blank sheets will be furnished. Write only on the ruled side of the blank sheets furnished. Number consecutively the sheets of your thesis and write in the following space the total number of such attached sheets. Number of sheets... Write a thesis of not less than 350 words on one (and only one) of the following subjects: 1. Give a comprehensive program for preventive and protective work by a police department in a large city. 2. Relations between police and health departments in cases where lawbreakers are suffering from venereal disease. 3. Give the value of a police department doing good preventive and protective work and of a private detective agency. Which is the more effective, and why? Sheet 2. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION POLICEWOMAN EXAMINATION SECOND SUBJECT-PRACTICAL QUESTIONS Directions to the Competitor-Read Carefully Competitor must fill these blanks: Time commenced......Date...... .Examination No....... Time finished..... .Place of Examination. N. B.-Do not write on this sheet. for the answers to the questions hereon. with numbers of questions. (City or Town) (State) Blank sheets will be furnished Write only on the ruled side of the blank sheets furnished. Number consecutively the sheets of answers to questions hereon, and write in the following space the total number of such attached sheets. Number of sheets.... Answer any ten (and only ten) of the following questions: Question 1. What is (a) a juvenile court, (b) a police court, (c) a criminal court? Question 2. (a) What do you understand by "parole"? (b) What do you understand by "voluntary probation"? Question 3. (a) What is a policewoman? (b) What is a police precinct? Question 4. Give the definitions of any five of the following terms: (a) criminal; (b) misdemeanant; (c) venereal disease; (d) conviction; (e) sentence; (f) hearsay evidence; (g) psychopathic; (h) truant; (i) larceny; (j) warrant. Question 5. Name the three general classes of persons usually requiring attention by the police and social workers. Question 6. State some of the qualities that any public servant should possess who is engaged in social work. Question 7. Should offending children pending trial be separated from the general classes of criminals, and how? Question 8. (a) What is a "fixed post duty"? (b) What is "case work"? Question 9. A girl of 19 years was arrested on suspicion and detained. She claims residence in another city. State method of making investigation, covering carefully all necessary work for identification. Question 10. A man has been arrested for a sex offense with a girl 12 years old. Both man and girl are held by the police. Assume that this case goes to court the following day, and state the evidence necessary for conviction and sentence. Give the status of each of these persons before the law. Question 11. (a) What do you understand by "day patrol"? (b) What do you understand by "night patrol"? Question 12. A girl 16 years of age, arrested for shoplifting, is feeble-minded, a truant; her father is dead; there are four younger children and the mother goes out to work. How would you handle this girl's case? |