MELBOURNE POLICE STRIKE
COMMISSION OP' INQUIRY. SERIOUS LAXITY IN THE FORCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, November 19. _ Giving evidence before a Royal Commission, which is inquiring into the circumstances of the police strike, the Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr Nicholson) g&vo/ strong reasons for instituting supervisors. Ho said ho saw men idling about the streets, leaning against lamp-posts, gossiping, and actually smoking in uniform m broad daylight. At night he saw them drank. He had repeatedly travelled in the Melbourne district and suburbs without seeing a sign of a constable. There were many burglaries and cases of house and shop breaking. Only rarely' did the police know anything about them till the owners reported the offences next morning. Even when the front doors in the main streets were broken in the police never found them. Mr Nicholson also gave details of serious offences committed by policemen while on duty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19333, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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