POLICE COMMISSION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6133, 21 March 1898, Page 4

POLICE COMMISSION.

[Per Press Association.] DO3JBIDIN, March 20. The Police Coidemsshmi held a prolonged sitting oa Saturday, Me J. A. Millar, in his evidence, said lie bad never interfered with a. single in«wnber of tine force with the exception of tfce case of Mayne. Then he had written asking if, after twenty years' service, Mayne could not be put on plain clothes duty to see if he was fib to be a detective, as Mayne thought he had a grievance. Mr Millar said he would like to see a Civil Service Board created to control the whole of the Civil servants. Mr James M'Gill, builder, said he had complained to the police respecting a number of houses in Filleul Street. He also complained to the landlord and r to the mortgagee (Bishop Nevill). There was an improvement for awhile, and then things got as bad as ever. To the Chairman : The police sometimes got a conviction for- vagrancy, and they had tried to get a conviction for prostitution, but they had failed. Mr J. B. Thompson, referring to the same place, said that prompt attention had always been paid by the police to any complaint, and on two occasions Lane had been cleared out. The police did all they could without the assistance of the landlords.