GRAVE CHARGES.
CONSTABLES OR CRIFINALS. VICTORIAN POLICE FORCE. Criticising the Government in the Victorian Legislative Assembly last week upon the curtailment of the Police Strike Royal Commission, Mr. Tunnecliffe moved the adjournment of the House to support his contention that among, the speteial constables were criminals of the lowest class, men who had committed vile and unmentionable crimes.
He named men who had been transferred 'from the special; to the perma nent police force, and enumerated then disqualifications. One, he said, had been refused fo? til© old police force through habitual association with thieves; one was a chronic drunkard; another had served 18 months for indecent assault; another had seduced a girl of 14; there was one with a withered arm; and another blind in one e.ve. Other offences for which men who were now policemen had been convicted included larceny of £l5O, assault upon the police, embezzlement, and receiving bribes. One had been dis•harged from the police force heca’ he., had heenj in gaol. Mr. Tunnecliffe said he had obtained his informa, tion from official files.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 9
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177GRAVE CHARGES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 9
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