POLICE INQUIRY.
REPLY TO STATEMENTS. SYDNEY, March 15. When the Royal Commission on betting raids opened to-day it was announced that the two Labour Parliamentarians, Messrs Lazzarini and Clyne, who, in Parliament made serious charges against the police did not intend to appear before the commission. The Police Commissioner (Air Mackay), however, attended and gave evidence in defence of police methods. He denied a statement made in Parliament that if the police did not return with a carload of betting offenders they were unfavourably looked upon. "He detailed departmental methods of checking the honesty of both parties in betting cases and said that, as a result of spasmodic departmental inquiries into police methods, some officers had been disrated, transferred, or dismissed as- circumstances warranted. “ The commission adjourned until next Monday.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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130POLICE INQUIRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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