CHILDREN’S COURTS.
POLICE IN UNIFORM. (Special to Uail? Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. At the conclusion of the sitting of the Children’s Court to-day Mrs A. E. Herbert, a member of the court, expressed regret that officers of the police force. and constables appeared at that court in uniform. While there is nothing in the Child Welfare Act to forbid the police appearing in uniform, Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., who recently retired, made it a local rule that members of the force should appear in mufti. Today the prosecuting sergeant and the constables were in uniform. Mr B. D. Mosley, S.M., said he was entirely in sympathy tjith the suggestion. He thought the title "Children’s Court” a misnomer. It should bo a place of correction and advice to children and parents alike. He could order that the police should appear in mufti, but the officers and constables might be up against their department. He thought the sooner the police lealised the intentions of the Act the better it, would be for the children.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 15
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173CHILDREN’S COURTS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 15
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