In each city of this state having a population of twenty thousand or more, as shown by the last-preceding United States census, the board of police commissioners or police committee shall appoint a police matron, whose duty it shall be to take charge of all women arrested and held by the police of the city.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-286
Police matrons in certain cities
(1949 Rev., S. 668.)
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