PERSONS FOUND ON HOTEL PREMISES
NEED FOR POLICE TO SHOW DISCRETION (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 25. The necessity of police officers exercising discretion in the matter Of approaching persons found on or coming out of city hotel premises was stressed by Mr Luxford, S.M., in dealing with a case which he dismissed. “Public places are open at night for quite legitimate business,” he said, “and if everybody who comes out of an hotel is going to be required to give an explanation to the police it is going to be a very serious matter. I quite realize that the onus is on any person who is found on or coming out of licensed premises to account for his presence there, but in a city like Wellington, where there are many residential hotels, if everybody has to give an explanation it is going to be oppressive. The police have a duty and should exercise that duty with what is called discretion.” It was certainly a matter which required the consideration of the police and they should carry out their duty with the least possible amount of annoyance to the Wellington public.
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Southland Times, Issue 23444, 26 February 1938, Page 7
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