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By Paula Damke
The question of the. status of Omaha
policewomen will again go before the
Omaha City Council Tuesday.
Similar action in Feb. 1974 by the
Lincoln City Council resulted in adop
tion of single job classification of police
officers but did not change the duties of
the policewomen or patrolmen.
Omaha Mayor Ed Zorinsky vetoed an
ordinance passed Nov. 5 by the Omaha
City Concil adopting a single job
classification for policewomen and
patrolmen making them police officers
with the same duties.
Veto
Zorinsky vetoed the ordinance be
cause of an added amendment giving
the 12 Omaha female officers a year to
decide whether to assume the new job
classification and added duties or
resign.
The five Lincoln women police
officers' duties are with women prison
ers, juveniles, rape victims and domes
tic crises. They are not assigned cruiser
duty.
Ricki Salzberry, of the Omaha
mayor's commission on the status of
women, said the added duties meant
some women for the first time in Omaha
would work patrol cruiser duty.
Salzberry said 11 of 12 policewomen
had objected to cruiser, duty saying they
weren't hired to do that job.
Criminal division assignment
Joy Wemmer, one of the Lincoln
female officers said, a woman officer in
Lincoln is assigned to the criminal
division rather than the traffic division.
She said everyone starts as an officer
and there is ample opportunity of
promotion for a woman. She added
women are paid on the same pay scale
as men officers.
She saioVsrte - personalty- would not
want to be. retrained Jor cruiser duty.
''I was hired to work with females and
I enjoy what I'm doing," she said.
Linda Steinman, another officer, said
there is, a need for the work women
police officers do.
'Should be an option
Steinman, who has a degree in fine
arts, said she thinks it should be an
option for women officers to either be
retrained for cruiser duty or remain in
the position they have.
Catherine Riggle, woman police offi
cer said she thought women should be
as fully trained as men, but there are
some jobs women are more suited for
(working with rape victims, etc.).
She said she felt the option of being
retrained or remaining in their present
position should be made after the first
(rookie) year.
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Police officer Catherine Riggle says
some police jobs are more suited for
women.
"Nothing replaces experience and
after the rookie year, the officer is in a
better position to know what's right,"
Riggle said.
Lincoln City Councilman Max Denny
commenting on the Omaha situation,
said he agreed with the single job
classification, but he thinks it should be
the option of the present policewomen to
decide whether to be retrained or stay in
the position they have.
Include option
Sue Bailey, council member, said she
thought the sensible action would
include the option.
She said women officers shouldn't be
forced to resign just becatrrey didn't
want to work cruiser duty.
Bob Sitiya, council member, said he
, did.noUe.eJ a -woman sholjld.'be put in a
job, such as cruiser duty, that, she. was
not capable or or one that would put her
life in jeopardy.
Lincoln Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf said
without the complete facts of the Omaha
situation he could not make a statement
on the matter.
Outstanding officers
But Schwartzkopf said the Lincoln
women police officers are outstanding in
their jobs and a credit to the
department.
Salzberry said the Omaha ordinance
prior to the amendment would put the
city in conformance with equal employ
ment laws.
She said the original ordinance (single
job classification) was supported by the
major, the male police officers and the
mayor's commission on the status of
women.
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