MR URQUHART’S ADDRESS
Badly-Drawn Laws Not Mentioned
The Assistant Commissioner of Police (Mr G. C. Urquhart) said yesterday that he made no mention of badly-drawn laws in his address to the Christchurch Lions Club on Tuesday. Mr Urquhart was reported in "The Press” yesterday as having said that the enforcement of unpopular or badlydrawn laws made the task of the police difficult and was bad for public relations. This was particularly so with the Sale of Liquor Act
Yesterday Mr Urquhart said he made mention of unpopular laws, but had made no mention of laws being badly drawn. According to the notes of thereporter at the meeting Mr Urquhart said: ’The policing of unpopular laws makes the task of the police more difficult and spoils the police image. This is particularly evident in regard to the Sale of Liquor Act. If laws are to be strictly enforced they should seem reasonable to the layman, and the layman should not be confused by them.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31290, 9 February 1967, Page 14
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