MELBOURNE POLICE.
GRAVE CHARGES MADE. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, Nov. 19. Giving evidence before the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the circumstances of the police strike, the Chief Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nicholson, gave strong reasons for instituting supervisors. He said he saw men idling about the street®, leaning against lanjp-posts, gossiping and actually smoking in uniform in broad daylight. At -night he saw them drunk. He repeatedly travelled in the Melbourne district and suburbs without seeing a sign of a constable. There were many burglaries and house and shop breaking and only rarely did the police know anything alwut them till the owner® reported the offences next morning. Even when front doors in the main streets were broken in the police never found them. Mr. Nicholson also gave details of serious offences committed by the police while on duty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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141MELBOURNE POLICE. Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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