PUBLIC AND POLICE
Need Seen For Co-operation (Nai. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 26. The police were helpless unless they have the assistance of the public, said Inspector P. A. Byrne, bead of the central police prosecutions branch, today. He told Auckland justices of the peace the police often faced opposition when they were only doing their duty. Last week in Customs street, Auckland, he said, a crowd stood by while a young constable struggled with a man who bad created a fracas in a shop. Three persons went to his assistance, but others stood back and refused to help.
“The people expect us to control disorders within society, but we are utterly helpless without their assistance. This is the enemy the police have to contend with.” He said the people paid soldiers, sailors and airmen to do a job for which they received full support. “Yet the police are paid to do a job and are resented for doing it.’’
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30091, 27 March 1963, Page 14
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