AUXILIARY FORCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20130, 10 June 1935, Page 6

AUXILIARY FORCE

THE ADVANTAGE OF SERVICE By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 8. The advantage of service in the auxiliary police force both to the reservist and the community was emphasised by the Commissioner of Police in an interview to-day. He said that enlistments in the auxiliary were fairly satisfactory but there were vacancies in each of the four centres. So far only at Auckland on the occasion of the Duke of Gloucester’s visit had it been necessary to call up reservists for duty and then only for two or three weeks. Apart from the benefits to the State and to the reservists individually, the Commissioner said it was expected that employers would value and readily avail themselves of the services of police reservists by which they w T ere assured of the integrity and trustworthiness of their employees and the sense of security to their interests the presence of such men in their service must necessarily create. There was doubtless also the satisfaction of helping an organisation designed to benefit in a very material way the business life of their city by an assurance of peace and good order. Mr Wohlmann added that the reserve offered the advantage of preference in selection w r hen vacancies occurred in the regular force.