(a) The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to appoint one or more women as police matrons. Police Matrons shall serve at the will and pleasure of the Chief of Police, and shall not come within the civil service provisions or pension applicable to members of the Police Department, except in the case of currently employed, female, Police Officers being assigned the duties of Police Matron. Such police matrons shall have the entire care and control of all women under arrest by the Police Department.
(b) Whenever a woman is arrested and taken to a police station to which a police matron is attached and when a matron is not present, it shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the police station to cause a matron to be summoned immediately. It shall be the duty of the police matron to hold herself in readiness at all hours of the day and night to answer all calls from the police station so long as any woman is or remains confined there.
(c) The police matron shall attend all sessions of City Court at all times whenever any woman is to be arraigned there and the police matron shall have charge of all women in attendance at the court whether awaiting trial or awaiting transfer to any other place of detention.
(d) Every station to which a police matron is attached shall provide sufficient and proper accommodations for all women under arrest or confined there.