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2005 Rhode Island Code - § 13-5-7 — Summons of matron on arrest of woman – Removal to designated station house.
Whenever, in any city or town where any police matron shall be appointed under
this chapter, a woman is arrested and taken to a police station to which a
matron is attached, and where the matron is not then present, it shall be the
duty of the officer in charge of the station to cause the matron to be
immediately summoned. Whenever, in any city or town in which a police matron
has been appointed, a woman is arrested and taken to the station house to which
no matron is attached, it shall be the duty of the officer in charge to cause
the woman prisoner to be removed, as soon as possible, to the nearest station
house to which a police matron is attached.
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