USE OF DISCRETION.
MAGISTRATE’S SUGGESTION. POLICE QUESTIONINGS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. Tlie necessity for police officers exercising discretion in tho matter of approaching people found on, or coming out of, .city hotel premises, was stressed by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M-, in dealing with a case which he dismissed to-day. “Public places are open at night for quite legitimate business,” he said, “and if everybody who comes out of an hotel is going to be required to give an explanation to the police it is going to be a very serious matter. I quite realise that the onus is on any person who is found on, or coming out of, licensed premises to account for his presence there, but in a city like Wellington, where there are many residential hotels, if everybody has to give an explanation it is going to be oppressive. “The police have a duty, and should exercise that duty with what is called discretion. It is certainly a matter which requires the consideration of the police, and they should carry out their duty with the least possible amount of annoyance to the Wellington public.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 2
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