The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928. POLICE METHODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 July 1928, Page 6

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo.

THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928. POLICE METHODS.

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m---i'.»ner. .eey. v\ no is a La bour i.uembt.r I'ar\iiam(lit. rev.-et: in e po.jr-e ver-. 1 n of *h' * ea-e. nny lay- stre-; en "the (iter: - , to wbi..-!, :£ - 01 *-"'?• iiWrty of ;h£- .--jl»,h-c: is raided !y tno epis ■:•«_;AppartZitiy th*-mov.-nty rc!>orT tiic- r*oiice itC'in ah -u-pieior. oi jK-rjurv. But in cry ea-e whe: t.i" cer.eral public ;.rc- ino-t eor.eer.'.ed abo.;" i- the (jue-t ion oi the ::;:ht- oi the private pr: - 'Tit T«-a- -what mo-- unp ntly d'-mamb d i- an into "th; ??n ~£J conduct oi the podc* in regard public off* c The cx.-i tenant : -ou-od in Parliament and the country bv the .-avidze ea-e •?.• a- due to th" it ■•■•*• r._* '-or;vi-tion that !n-;u:-:t'--r!fd n.ethod- au<n :-•••■_ British procedure nr • Vim* en,j•:<•;• ••! >.y th<- p/.jice at Home. and that the Kriti-h trad:tmn :n iavour of th'- a-cu-ed t:;! he i- j r<. v<-d cuiitv :- bein~ j_"nr>r'-i . to th "third aand similar aberration-. the-e can. of C'-ur-e. f.n'i c 'Tit'j''-'i tiv th'- autf;'. r:t:e«. But a v*jdpi 'jUe-ticn i- mvo. ved ,n tne at tit ad' taken ut> by th'- poli'-e to-xgrd form- oi p~r- -na! ••'■nnu-.-t ■rh-ch Hi their opinion may be mrarded a-tran-c:'--ir.L r the co-.> oi -ocisl iiinrality. On thi- ;--uc th' "Saturday lievier,-" hs.''""■it v pronounced an opinion -which seems t" u- t>< de-erve very seriou- eon-ideraiion. It iii a' ti T :n - that "the police arc not the rinrci-ti- ''i public morals. Their dutv ;s "i" protect the plain r:--u . annoy an -e "n m- v.alrC- fibr'»B':. n<-t f' ma.n'ain a ifi'Ta] r-odp." Ar,<! the hcicr.l infirmre is that r.o '-lie -h'iuid be 'n">'!ct'i r <n cnarcre- r>f per-om! :i:i-C'n'iU<-t ""n the un-up;>f>rted evidence >f the Apparently th:- i- the conciu-ion to v.'hK-h Seotian'i ard ha- been driven by the agitation over the Savidjre ca-e. for {he pohee have -mij-ly cea-'-d to arre-t in cases in which they cannot ?ceure independent "wit-nes-e-. Ther" i-. of eour-e. an '.bviou? dane.'r *'• jiniiiic jne.rfl.ty in tin-, but ive vrith the "Saturday Review" that thi- i- a less -f-ri' u- than "th<- danger oi ir. ; u-tice to the innocent individual." Ann thi- vietv of the 'pie-tinn j« -treni'thened by the natural tender.'v r.f police headquarter- and the Home Oftiee to back up th'ir subordinate- in the perform a net- of their duties A proof of thi- tendency i- the Va-e of Mai": Graham wh trg- arre-ted la-t Aunist on st <>t brinz drunk and di-'.irder'v and !i.'d"-t!rr —omeji. (>r. conrieti'-n he appealed and iv 3- finally and eventnallv the 11 * 'iii *' f'fr.i- paid him ii -Wi conipenjatioa. r>ut it- r'luetance to admit the mi-take of the poiiee officer-, and It- efforts to -hield them, certainly help to conflrm th" ■w-idestiread convictjor that the liberties of the average British eiti-rn are irrien-ly threatened by the exi-tinr methor]- r.f polirr. rirocedure.