POLICE METHODS DEFENDED
Mr Barnett Comments On Sly-Grog Case
tNew Zeaiana Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 12. “The police have a duty to suppress sly-grogglng and are entitled to match their wits against those of the suspect," said the Controller-General of Police, Mr S. T. Barnett, today. He was commenting on criticism of police methods in obtaining a conviction for sly-grogging which was mada by counsel, Mr Sou^^US. the “I suggest that if the police had done their duty with impropriety the case could have been defended and then all the facts would have emerged and the Magistrate could' have made his comment,’’ said Mr Barnett “I disapprove of a suspect being persuaded to commit an offence and I do not believe that these methods were adopted,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28354, 13 August 1957, Page 8
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