POLICE CHIEF CRITICISED
ATTITUDE TO CONSTABLE UNFAIRNESS ALLEGED SYDNEY. May 3. At to-day's sitting of the Royal Commission, which inquired into the conduct of the police in dealing with suspected illegal betting operations, and which later re-opened its inquiry in order to reconsider the case of Constable M. B. Miller, counsel for Constable ' Miller, Mr. J. W. Shand, K.C.. laid a charge against' Police Commissioner Mackay, of unjust and unfair treatment of Constable Miller.
Mr. Shand claimed that the commission, under a false assumption of fairness, had attempted to discredit Constable Miller and had maliciously presented to the Premier the-cause of Constable Miller's absence in the country in 1936, which Mr. Shand contended was genuinely due to ill-health. Mr. Shand further submitted that the police commissioner had approved of obviously baseless charges and biased reports of senior police officers relating to Constable Miller's in connection with the crusade against startingprice bettors.
The inquiry was adjourned to a date to be fixed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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