The Girls in Blue Patrol The City Streets "Bishopagate Patrol", left to right: PWC Kathleen Stemp and PWC Joan Pegg, (First girl to be recruited in the City police) on patrol in Bishopsgate. The back alleys and by ways of the City of London ***** soon be patrolled by trim young ladies in police as well as the familiar London policeman. They ***** women police Constables No. 20-24, the first girls to join the City of London Police. One of them Kathleen Stemp, Southwold girl was a balloon operator during the war: Joan Pegg of Derbyshire was a wartime nursing orderly Betty Owen a ***** farmer's daughter is one of the latest recruits. May 4, 1950. (Photo by Fox Photos).