Honoring local women in law enforcement

Laura Young reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com Each year in September our nation sets aside a day to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution of female officers who enforce law and order around the country. National Police Woman Day was instituted to help encourage more women to choose this career path so that in the future more law enforcement agencies will have stronger female representation. According to National Today, a repository of information about special recognition days, the first policewoman in the United States was most likely Marie Owens. She was hired by the Chicago Police Department in 1891. Before this, law enforcement agencies did employ police matrons to search and gu