Women on Patrol

Published October 13, 2004

A one-week training session seemed far too brief, but no amount of time in the classroom could have sufficiently prepared police officers Martine Le Royer and Debbie Doyle for their UN mission in East Timor.

Their first assignment as part of the Vulnerable Persons Unit in the capital of Dili was the case of a father accused of sexually assaulting his eight-year-old daughter. Eventually, the father...