Birmingham Parks Police

c. lxx) permitted the corporation to appoint park keepers as constables.

[2] They were required to take the oath that a constable of the regular city police took under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882.

[2] They then had the "powers, authorities and privileges" of such a constable within the corporation's parks, whether within the limits of the city or not.

[6] After the war, it was also thought that female police officers might help to prevent indecent exposure and sexual assaults on children.

The National Council of Women of Great Britain presented an appeal to the Parks Committee in 1924 for more police, particularly women police officers "in the interests of public morality and decency and particularly for the safeguarding of little children", complaining that the supervision of parks was inadequate, and citing several recent cases of "misconduct and indecency", particularly at Warley, Cannon Hill, Swanshurst and Sparkhill parks.