POLICE STOP MAIL VAN
DEPARTMENT'S PROTEST
MEN NOT IN UNIFORM
LONDON, Aug. 17
When a Post Office mail van driver, Frederick Bnrllett, was summoned at Warwick on Saturday for exceeding tho speed-limit. Mr. •'■ !'•• Simmons defending, protested on behalf of the Postmaster-Genera! at the manner in which the van was stopped. Police officers in plain clothes overtook the van in a patrol cur, and pulled down a blind bearing the words: "Stop, Police." Mr. Simmons said the PostmasterGeneral was very much perturbed. Bartlctt was placed in fear and apprehension, because he did not know that the officers were policemen. They might have been someone wanting to rob the mail.
A van driver's task, is hazardous on country roads and should not be aggravated by tho police. Superintendent LitwreiK-e submitted that the police had adopted a correct attitude. The driver need not have stopped when, the police were not in uniform. No one, but policemen could produce a warrant card. Tne .summons was dismissed.
The chairman, the Hon. A. E. Parker, said it was a grave indiscretion of the police, when not in uniform, to have Stopped Kis .Majesty's mails.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 15
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188POLICE STOP MAIL VAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 15
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