POLICE TRAP CASE
QUESTION‘OF WARNING.
MAGISTRATE’S RULING.
WELLINGTON, This Day,
To warn a person that the police are in the vicinity and induce him to refrain from committing a contemplated breach of the law is not an offence.
: This applies oven though, but for such warning, he would probably have committed a breach and been detect 1 ed; but, if a breach is actually being committed and its detection is imminent, to warn an offender and so ' 'JV intentionally prevent the police obtaining proof of the offence constitutes obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty. So said Mr E. Page, S.M., in giving his reserved decision in a recent police trap case, in which one Valentine was charge with attempting to obstruct the police. He warned two motorists, one of whom was stopped later and convicted, while the other slowed down. The decision was against Valentine, who was fined £1. —Press Assn,
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Northern Advocate, 3 February 1928, Page 8
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