Police Methods
Sir,—Our police are an organised force to maintain peace in the community., They are paid by the taxpayers. It is the same with traffic personnel. They, too, are the paid servants of the taxpayers—paid to prevent slaughter on the highways. Yet many citizens seem to go out of their way to break both laws and the road code. Fortunately, peace disturbers and roadhogs are in a minority. In spite of the aspersions directed against both police and traffic officers on their methods, we cannot do without them. In a recent incident in the Square directed against sympathisers of the Viet Cong forces in Vietnam, we can hardly blame the police for any attitude adopted. Policemen cannot be expected to be authorities on Vietnam affairs when so many of our politicians, who have visited South Vietnam, have returned with extremely hazy ideas on this shocking crisis. —Yours, etc., RALPH S. WHEELER. Timaru, April 6, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 14
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