POLICE METHODS.
Coping With the Modern Criminal. COMMENT BY COMMISSIONER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 10. Commenting on statements that consideration must eventually be given to the provision of mobile squads ‘.n the principal New Zealand cities to cope with the methods of modern criminals, and that the existing facilities are inadequate, the Commissioner of Police (Mr W. G. Wohlmann) said: “Inadequacy must be relative. The whole population of New Zealand is not much more than that of Glasgow. I think it questionable whether there is a mobile squad in the whole of Scotland “ We have to bear in mind, in addition to the relatively small population of New' Zealand, its geographical conformation, its absence of large cities, its relatively uniform diffusion of population and its insular position. The problems in New Zealand differ from those in largely populated countries. The inauguration of mobile squads in London and, I believe, in Melbourne and Sydney, were to meet the menace of organised gangs of criminals which we have not in this country. “ At the same time, New Zealand has some provision for moving its men at night and the question of adding to that is one that has not been lost sight of and is receiving consideration ”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 5
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