Gladys O’Brien used to walk Hamilton’s “mad mile”, knocking on doors to check for vagrants.
As Hamilton’s first female police officer, strolling the footpaths of Victoria between Alma and London streets was a daily task.
In the late 1950s, with a 6pm bar closing, you could shoot a gun down Hamilton’s main street and not hit a soul, she says.
“There was nobody in the street. They went home for dinner after work at 6pm,” O’Brien said from Garden Place on Monday as she celebrated 75 years of women in policing. – READ MORE
