THE POLICE COMMISSION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 4

THE POLICE COMMISSION

SITTINGS AT DUNEDIN CLOSED. ii>eb Pukhs Association.j ‘ 1 DUNEDIN, July 19. The Police Commission has .resumed. The principal witness this morning was Sub-ImnMtor l>ha.r who ea.d he had never heard a hint that Mr. Wright, chief clerk in the Commissioner's office, was the real Commissioner. Witness did not know of real discontent in the force. He thought the pay and general conditions of the force should he improved, so asi to attract the best type of recruits, also the police should be relieved or educa'e vide nee *w as given by a number of sergeants and by Mr. Camming agent for the Patients’ ■ and Prisoners Aid °The^Commission has now finished its sittings here, and has adjourned go sit at Oamaru on Wednesday. MEETING OF POLICE AT , WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, July 19. Upwards of forty members of the Wellington police met to-night. inc following resolution was carried unanimously: “That this meeting views with grave concern the proceetlmp at the Dunedin sitting of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the New Zealand police force, inasmuch as it is reported that (1) grossly untrue assertions as to misconduct in the Wellington ponce barracks, etc., were made by Mr. Arnold, M.P.; (2) that Constable C. HLennon, formerly of Wellington, but now an assistant clerk m the Dunedin police station, has been described bj inspector O'Brien as a ‘net’ from another district, he has been denied the right of cross-examination of his accusers, whereas others were allowed to freely cross-examine non-accusers and adversely criticise absentee officers; (3) that Mr. Bishop, S.M., has now publicly acknowledged that a previous Cimmission of Inquiry into the New Zealand police, and of which he was chairman, framed its reports dealing with officers at least partially from newspaper reports of its proceedings, and having regard to the apparent seriousness of the situation, this meeting desires to express its full appreciation of and confidence in our present Commissioner of Police, uinnie, and further resolves to employ able counsel to represent the police of Wellington and suburbs at the approaching sitting of the Royal Commission in this city, so that protection of individual and collective rights of all concerned may be insured, and that justice, iairplay, and truth may prevail.”