MAN’S DEATH IN CELL
Action Against Constables (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 12. An inquiry has been initiated by the Commissioner of Police (Mr W. S. Brown) into the actions of two constables who were on duty when a man died in the police lock-up at Taupo on August 29. u . . Proceedings had already begun against the two officers. Constables B. Main and A. Bourke, for alleged breaches of police regulations, said Mr Brown yesterday. He expects the proceedings will be completed next week. Mr Brown said he would hear the charges against the constables himself. It was competent for him to pass the departmental inquiry over to an outsider, as was sometimes done where the actions of a police officer were of extraordinary public interest. Such actionjkdid not appear to be warrantea in this case.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 14
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