AUXILIARY POLICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22131, 10 June 1935, Page 10

AUXILIARY POLICE

VACANCIES IN CITIES BENEFITS OF ENLISTMENT [by telegraph—TOESS association] WELLINGTON, Saturday The advantage of service in the auxiliary polico force, both to reservists and the community, was emphasised by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. G. Wohlmann, to-day. Ho said that enlistments in the auxiliary wore fairly satisfactory, but there were vacancies in each of the four main centres. So far only in Auckland, 011 the occasion of the JQuko of Gloucester's visit, had it been necessary to call up reservists for duty, and then only tor two or three weeks.

Apart from benefits to the State and to reservists individually, the commissioner said, it was expected that employers would value and readily avail themselves of the services of police reservists, whereby they were assured of the integrity and trustworthiness of their employees, and tho sense of security to their interests that the presence of such men in their service must necessarily create. There was doubtless also the satisfaction of helping an organisation designed to benefit in a very material way the business life of their city by the assurance of peace and good order. Mr. Wohlmann added that the reserve offered the advantage of preference in selection when vacancies occurred in tho regular force.