article_snippet: WPC Mary Routledge recalls: 'Women were expected to do same role as men without equipment.
article_snippet: my handbag explained: 'We were being put in positions that a man would be put in
article_snippet: but We weren't being given equipment. '
article_snippet: Then the Women had no official uniform or weapons .
article_snippet: These women who were in the Women's Police Service in 1918 had no powers of arrest .
highlights_snippet: In the Seventies women had to wear skirts and couldn't carry weapons .
  