OFFICER REINSTATED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 314, 11 July 1930, Page 7

OFFICER REINSTATED

SENIOR-SERGI. BONISCH

MINISTER’S ANNOUNCEMENT APPEAL BOARD’S FINDING [ Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 10. The Minister of Justice (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) announces that Senior-Ser-geant George Boniseh, who was dismissed by the late Commissioner of Police (Mr W. B. Mcllveney) for alleged breaches of the police regulations, has been reinstated. In outlining the history of the case, th e Minister said: “Ex-Sergeant Bonisch was discharged from the force on June 15 on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Police, approval to which was given by my predecessor in charg c of the Police Department. Formal notice of appeal was sent to me by ox Sergeant Boniseh and numerous representations wore made to me by other persons that this officer had been harshly dealt with. I went into vhe wbftle of the papers carefully myself. From these papers and from further in formation received by me, I was of the opinion that the punishment was too severe and that the case was one in which further inquiry should be made. I referred the matter to the Public Service Commissioner and the SolicitorGeneral and they recommended that it should be reviewed by an informal appeal board consisting of a Magistrate, an ex-member of the Police Forc c and an outsider, with a view to submitting a recommendation to me as Minister of Justice, as to whether the punishment of dismissal was, in their opinion, warranted. The reinstatement of SeniorSergeant Boniseh is the result.