“Traffic Officers Don’t Need Code Of Ethics”
(New Zealand Press Association)
DUNEDIN, October 29. Dunedin's traffic officers do not need a code of ethics to govern their conduct, in the opinion of the City Traffic Superintendent, Mr P. Lunn. He was commenting on the issue, to each Auckland City Council traffic department officer, of a code. Each officer is to hold, memorise, and practice its tenets. “We do not need such things in Dunedin, as every officer is trained to act always in the public interest It is better for an officer to have such things in his mind than
on a piece of card stuck in his pocket." An extract from the Auckland code reads: “I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities, or friendships to influence my decisions." Mr Lunn said: “No Dunedin officer issues a ticket until he has been with us at least three months.
“They first go out with senior officers and are taught there is a right and a wrong way of doing things. “They are taught to be courteous and to be generally helpful to the public. “We do not think it is necessary for this sort of thing to be issued in the form of a code of ethics," he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30275, 30 October 1963, Page 10
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