Legislation was enacted to appoint female police matrons in 1888, and the first four were hired in 1891.

That was the point Ms. Brevetti was after with the police matron.

The police matron struggled for a minute to recall, then answered precisely the question she was asked.

She was certainly no police matron.

She had the police matron with her.

These female officers were often known as "police matrons".

On Coney Island, police matrons wrestled women in the new clinging wool "tube" suits out of the surf.

The police matron came forward a step protectively.

The appointment of police matrons at police stations for female prisoners.

A detective and a police matron testified, for example, that Miss Riner's eyelashes were singed when she was arrested after the fire.