POLICE COMMISSION.
SITTING .\T AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 3:i. At the Police Commission this morning, Air Keiile. .senior Stipendiary Magistrate, expressed the npmii.ni that the discipline of tho police force was not M) good as it. should he. He referred more particularly to some of the younger men <ix>pointecl during the last, two years. He thought il.ere should bo'proper military discipline in the force. lie Jiacl seen officers this morning lolling outside the Court •.•.u-.\ smoking while in uniform. Flo l.ioug'it men should have at least three i;i"iuhs' (raining in barracks and go '.elo'.e a Hoard of Enquiry before they wore sent out. He spoke highly of . nrioi.s officers in the Auckland force. lie thought, other things being coral, preference should he given 10 s< nior men when vacancies occurred.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13993, 31 August 1909, Page 6
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