SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
ELEVEN TRAFFIC INSPECTORS
Adverse comment is being made on the decision of the City Council on Monday evening to havo eleven of'its Traffic Inspectors sworn in as special constables. Tlie reason given for this action was "that on occasions when Assistant Traffic Inspectors have approached persons in reference to a breach of the law they have been subjected to obscene language and insolence."'
As a number of other officers of the Council are also employed in detecting breaches of the law, as it relates to sanitation, buildings, and water supply, and presumably are therefore subjected to the same indignities, some citizens contend that to be logical the Council should have them also clothed with powers of arrest. The City Council has wasted no time in asking the senior Magistrate of the City to swear the inspectors in as constables Mr H A. Young. S.M., has already been written to and informed of the Council's resolution. Tn a letter sent to him on Tuesday, Mr Youncr has been asked to name a suitable date for adminif-terinc the oath. Mr H. Macintosh. Chief Traffic Inspector. and Mr -T. Rruorton. Assistant Chief Traffic Inspector, were sworn in as special constables about 18 months ago. So far. it is stated, they ha\*fc not arrested anvbody.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19669, 12 July 1929, Page 10
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