POLICE INDICTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 March 1925, Page 5

POLICE INDICTED

MONTREAL’S MORALITY

COMMISSIONER'S REPORT

CORRUPT OFFICIALS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received March 16, 9.40 a.m

OTTAWA, March 15. A( telegram from Montreal states that Justice Louis Coderre, who eon,dacted an inquiry into Montreal’s vice, has issued a report stating that the police official at the head of Montreal’s morality squads, had used hi,s position to amass a fortune and had betrayed his oath of offibe, and his retention would he a disgrace to the public morals of the city. Montreal, by a system of fines of keepers of disorderly houses, puts' itself in the first ranks of vice profiteers; that several detectives by initiating a. system of ransom for the .return of stolen goods, gave thieves and receivers of stolen goods immunity and encouraged crime; that police inspectors amassed fortunes through grave, dereliction ,of duty; that certain constables, instead of being. guardians of the law, acted morelike apaches than police; that the union is ,a cancer on good discipline, and a school for insubordination, and should be abolished forthwith; that there should he a director of public safety in charge of police affairs, who should be above control by the City Council, with a right of appeal to the courts from any attack on his position; that a» 'system, of card index should be kept for all foreigners, and the police force should be increased by at least fifty per cent.— Aus.-N.Z. CaWe Assn.