VICTORIAN POLICE
CHARGES OF CORRUPTION BY STRIKERS TO DEFEAT LICENSING LAWS Melbourne, April 21. Affidavits have been sworn by emmembers of the licensing police who were dismissed for taking part in the police strike, alleging that corruption, collusion, and intimidation were rife in the licensing branch of the Victorian Police in 1923. A Royal Commission, they said, was demanded by them at the time of the strike. They declared that in less than a year eighty charges made against hotel and restaurant keepers by subordinate police were subsequently withdrawn, after influence had been exerted by an outside body. They also alleged that the police received occasional instructions to keep away from certain hotels, where functions were being held without the necessary permits from the Licensing Court.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 178, 22 April 1924, Page 6
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