Complex sentence: Helen Wilder, daughter of American shipping magnate Samuel Gardner Wilder, was given the authority to enforce animal cruelty laws in in 1897, at that time the first woman police officer of the Hawaiian Police Force and perhaps the world.
Split into simpler sentences: Helen Wilder, daughter of American shipping magnate Samuel Gardner Wilder, was given the authority to enforce animal cruelty laws in in 1897. At that time she was the first woman police officer of the Hawaiian Police Force and perhaps the world.