Long baton for Aust, police?
PA Wellington The secretary of the Police Association, Dr R. A. Moodie. believes that the Australian police will soon follow New Zealand’s lead by adding the PR24 long baton to their stocks. Dr Moodie, who recently attended a conference in Australia of the Police Federation of Australia and New Zealand, said that the Australian police were "interested” in the baton to solve the problems of police working in isolation without any back-up. The baton would probably end their search for an effective defensive weapon.
The Australian police had short batons of various sizes and weights at their disposal and a very long riot baton which was "ineffective.” The PR24 baton was already in use in New South Wales. The Australian police had seen how effective the long baton was during the Springbok tour in New Zealand but they were not interested in the baton for that purpose. The Australian police had been “pretty impressed” with the way in which the New Zealand police had handled the Springbok tour and how they had appeared to come out of it with their public image reasonably intact.
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