DECLARED MEDICALLY UNFIT

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 9

DECLARED MEDICALLY UNFIT

Victorian Police Chief

Melbourne, May 3.

Superintendent Brophy, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Victorian Police Force, after an examination by the Government Medical Board, has been declared medically unfit for return to duty.

Superintendent Brophy has been ill for many months, and the medical advice was that he was not likely to recover unless he could rest. The Attorney-General, Mr. A. L. Bussau, recently entered a nolle prosequi in the case of Superintendent Brophy against Geoffrey Davies. Superintendent Brophy was shot on May 22 last year in circumstances which later led to the resignation of the commissioner and an investigation of the general administration of the force. Brophy was wounded in the face and arm, and conflicting stories were told of the circumstances of the affair.

The official account was that the superintendent had gone to Royal Park in the endeavour to catch car bandits. On March 17 the superintendent appeared in court and identified Geoffrey Davies as the man who had shot him, and the man was committed for trial on the charge of shooting with intent to murder.