POLICE INTERVIEWS
CHILDREN AT SCHOOLS.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HASTINGS, Monday.
In a reply to Mr. W. E. Barnard, M.P. for Xapicr, regarding the rights of police officers to interrogate children in schools, the Minister of Justice, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, quotes from Departmental instructions on the subject as follows: "It is dceired that where a child is interviewed by the police apart from its parents, unless there are good reasons to the contrary the result of the interview be communicated to the parents without delay. The natural emotions and anxieties of the parent should, of course, be treated with all possible consideration, and all information the disclosure of which would not obviously be against the interests of justice, the child, or its parents, should be given to its parents." ■ . , "I niay add it is further directed th:it wherever possible the interview be made by police in plain clothes," stated the •Minister.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 227, 25 September 1934, Page 9
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