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Definition of Police matron
1. Noun. A woman policeman.
Specialized synonyms: Meter Maid
Generic synonyms: Officer, Police Officer, Policeman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Matron
Literary usage of Police matron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Kentucky, House of Representatives, General Assembly (1898)
"Whenever in any city where a police matron shall be appointed under this act, a
woman or child taken to the station or jail to which a police matron or an ..."
2. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"At the present day there is probably no city of any size in the United States
which does not employ at least one police matron, and most of the large cities ..."
3. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1896)
"So long as any duties. woman is detained or held under arrest in a police station
to which a police matron is attached, it shall be the duty of such matron ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1886)
"Every city should have a police matron, into whose hands every woman arrested
should be given, to be searched and cared for. My attention was first called ..."
5. Public Hygiene by Thomas Stewart Blair (1911)
"Their services to the public — Police ambulances — The police matron — The sanitary
police — Their place in suppressing vice — Police instruction in first ..."
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