INTERVIEWS BY POLICE
POLICY WITH CHILDREN AT SCHOOL
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 23. Police interviewed children at schools only when it was necessary for the detection and prevention of delinqency, and even then under safeguards laid down in police instructions, said the Acting-Minister in charge of Police (Mr E. T. Halstead). “In general, the police endeavour to talk to children involved in inquiries, at home and in the presence of their parents,” said Mr Halstead.
He was commenting on a discussion by the Wanganui Technical College board of Governors on the question of police interviews in schools. When the police wished to interview a child at school, they made arrangements through the headmaster and asked that he or some other teacher be present throughout, said the Minister. No objections were raised by the police if the headmaster arranged for the presence of a parent. If there was no parent present, the police were bound to communicate without delay with the parents and advise them of what had taken place, Mr Halstead said.
Girl pupils were interviewed by a policewoman, or the detective making the inquiry was accompanied by a policewoman.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27592, 24 February 1955, Page 7
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