POLICE METHODS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 March 1936, Page 5

POLICE METHODS

CONDUCT OF BETTING RAIDS EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES /United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copy riKhu SYDNEY, 25th March. At the inquiry into police methods of conducting betting raids to-day, Henry Farmer, tobacconist and hairdresser. Marrickvillo, declared that three police raided his shop in February, 1930, and later he was convicted of an illegal betting offence. Betting slips which were tendered in the court were not in his shop or house before the police entered and the writing on them was not his. Farmer said he lost his appeal against his conviction. Mrs Farmer gave evidence that she was roughly handled by two policemen on that occasion, and wondered wliat the raid was all about, as her husband was not a bettor, although he posted race results in his shop window. Sergeant Keeble told the commission I that there had been complaints about ! betting in the suburb of Marrickville i and the police raided Farmer’s pre- | mises because there was always a j crowd about the shop. The Commissioner of Police, Air I Mackav, said he had received many I complaints about police, mostly m the form of anonymous letters. The majority of these'complaints were investigated, despite their anonymity. The inquiry was adjourned.