Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
Berkeley was approaching a gender milestone a century ago as Berkeley’s police chief, August Vollmer, was planning to hire a woman as a police officer. The City Council had funding in the 1924-25 budget for a new police ambulance and three new police officers, one of them specifically to be a woman.Berkeley, a Look Back: City leader presses for permanent hills park land
In that era, progressive police chiefs were interested in having women as officers partly in the belief that they could more effectively interview female crime victims or suspects and work with children who came in contact with police departments. The organizer was Mrs. Lyba Sheffield Mackie, instructor in swimming, who was “well known in the bay region, and her work has attracted considerable attention. She is a Pacific coast record holder in swimming and diving … .”
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