(a) The Chief of Police with the Police Committee and Mayor, will interview, test and investigate all prospective police matrons. The Mayor may appoint, subject to the prior approval of Council, one or more women as police matrons. They shall be subject to the qualifications listed in Section 139.05
. 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.
(Passed 2-1-82.)