Young Policewoman Dandy Allen, of the Manningham Police, was working with a special squad in the Wharf Lane area, where her father, Police-Sergeant John Allen, had disappeared. When some prisoners broke out of the local jail, Dandy, using a borrowed motor-bike, pursued one of them and his accomplice as they raced away in a getaway car.
The Police Chief’s computer, Electronic Random Name Indicator Extraordinary (Ernie) , had selected dizzy W.P.C. Dora Wiggins as the person most likely to succeed. Dora didn’t agree with this – but the chief delared his computer couldn’t be wrong, and to her dismay he promoted her anyway.
Roberta Shaw was a policewoman who looked so young she could pass for a schoolgirl – and she was known as “Babyface Bobbie”. Bobbie became a “pupil” at Rowdown Academy so she could act as a secret bodyguard for Karen Kronor, the spoilt daughter of the President of Translavia.
