SHORTAGE OF WAR
POLICE FORCE SERVICE STANDARD MAINTAINED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “There is a shortage of men. We are continually recruiting, but are never able to keep up to our authorised strength,” said the Superintendent of Police, Mr. C. W. Lopdell, when inquiries were made as to the position of the police force in the district. He emphasised that the force, though seeking recruits, did not intend to relax its standards, but said if the probable men. were of not quite the same physical standard they might be taken for special work for the duration of war conditions only. “Our duties are always increasing and becoming more urgent, but our man-power always threatens to be decreased by the desire of many members to get away, although regulations have now prohibited this,” added the superintendent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20639, 20 August 1941, Page 6
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