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Pimps, Prostitutes and Policewomen: The Polish Women Police and the International Campaign against the Traffic in Women and Children between the World Wars

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DAVID PETRUCCELLI
DAVID PETRUCCELLI*
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Department of History, Yale University, 320 York Street, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520–8324, USA; david.petruccelli@yale.edu
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Abstract

Women entered police service between the wars in much of the world as a result of agitation by the international women's movement and the League of Nations. Nearly everywhere a gendered division of police work emerged, with female police primarily responsible for social welfare tasks and their male colleagues handling investigations and arrests. Poland represented a notable exception. Tapping into both international and national concerns, Polish policewomen laid claim to extensive powers by invoking the grave threat of the traffic in women. This focus on trafficking had a paradoxical effect, expanding the possibilities for female policing even as it justified a range of restrictive measures against prostitutes and poor female emigrants.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , August 2015 , pp. 333 - 350
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65 This case has been reconstructed from the extensive documentation in AAN KGPP 97; AAN MOS 1927, 54–90; United States National Archives, College Park, MD, RG 59, Visa Division Correspondence Regarding Immigration, Entry 72, Boxes 44 to 46 (150.069 Baskin, Morris).

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70 US Consul General, Warsaw, to State Department, 20 Dec. 1932, US NACP RG 59, Visa Division Correspondence, Entry 702, Box 45 (150.069 Baskin, Morris, Part 6).

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74 Paleolog, Women Police, 13–4.

75 ‘Protokuł konferencji informancyjnej w sprawie handle kobietami i dziećmi w Argentynie’, 24 Sept. 1930, AAN MOS 192, 85–6.

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82 Siemińska, Stan Walki, 9.

83 [Paleolog], ‘Służba’, AAN KGPP 1881, 182.

84 Chodźko, Handel, 22; Guy, Sex, 105–35; Paleolog, Women Police, 86.

85 [Paleolog], ‘Służba’, AAN KGPP 1881, 183.

86 ‘Referat o działalności policji kobiecej w Polsce – na X Międzynarodowy Kongres Komitetów Zwalczania Handlu Kobietami i Dziećmi w Paryżu w r. 1937’, AAN MOS 182, 56.

87 Report, Komenda Główna Policji Państwowej, 13 Apr. 1938, AAN KGPP 1882, 27; ‘Nowe policjantki przyjęto do służby’, Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny, 20 Aug. 1939, 12.

88 Paleolog, Women Police, 25.

89 ‘Protokuł Odprawy Naczelników Urzędów Śledczej, która odbyła się w Cenrali Służby Śledczej w Warszawie, w dniu 2 i 3 czerwca 1937 roku’, 108, AAN KGPP 2097.

90 Paleolog, Filipina Stanisława, ‘X Międzynarodowy Kongres Komitetów Zwalczania Handlu Kobietami I Dziećmi W Paryżu’, Przegląd Policyjny, 3, 3 (Mar. 1938), 147–8.Google Scholar

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