RE: PA availability, was: [semi OT] Women wargamers

You wrote: 

>were definite precursors to the Police of today. There may even be 
>examples that far predate that - in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if 
>the Romans had police like formations given their high level of 
>law and organization.	

The Urban Cohorts, Cohors Urbae IIRC, were a paramilitary watchman 
organization responsible for maintaining law and order within Old Rome 
before the Empire handed it over to the barbs.

John M. Atkinson