Damer Dawson requested to have all the WPS's volunteers made into official Met patrolwomen, but the Commissioner refused as he felt that it would cause friction because the women were too well educated. Instead the WPS was renamed the Women's Auxiliary Service in 1920 and continued even after the introduction of women into police forces such as the Metropolitan Police in 1919. WAS members went to Ireland in 1920 during the Irish War of Independence to assist the Royal Irish Constabulary as "lady police searchers". Allen represented the WAS on a visit to the British Army of the Rhine in 1923 to advise on the use of women police. She also assigned it strike-breaking duties during the 1926 General Strike.