INADEQUACY OF POLICE.
TO THE EDITOR. j
Sir,— • Edwin Cox forcibly testifies to the fact that our police force is inadequate. Now I think that if we followed in the footsteps of Liverpool wo would have less reason to complain. John Burns says: — *' This once drink-cursed district (Liverpool) has, since 1889, added 78,000 to its population, reduced its police drunkenness cases from 16,000 to 4180; its crime from 926 to 552 per 100,000; its policemen by 100, saving £8000 to the rates, ,by the simple remedy of having got rid of 345 licensed premises in 11 years." While we might not get so great an advantage in New Zealand, yet we all know that the manufactured article of the drinkseller monopolises our police so much that they are not at liberty to attend to other business as they ought, and might be, but for the existence of the liquor traffic.—l am, etc., W.J.M.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12027, 25 July 1902, Page 7
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