THE POLICE COMMISSION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5

THE POLICE COMMISSION

THE MINISTER OP JUSTICE’S OPINION.

(Picn Puksb Association.]

CHRISTCHURCH ,_July2C. Regarding the Police Commission, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, Minister of Justice, told an interviewer that though there was no intention of imposing limitations, on the Commission for the purpose of preventing proper investigation, yet every constable who had been discharged from the service during years past, after full inquiry and after Ministerial'decisions, "was able to have h:s complaints re-heard and his conduct re-judged. The Commission might have little else to do than hear them. Moreover, the complaints ijiade "were not, in any case, with regard to the dismissal of constables who should have been retained, but with togard to the retention in the force of men ■who should have been dismissed. All the ground concerned with those matters the Commission had amplest authority to cover, and Dr. Findlay was glad to see that Mr. Bishop was interpreting his powers ' with wise latitude.

MEETING OF OFFICERS AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, July 20. It is understood that Inspector Edison held an informal meeting of members of the higher grades of the police force to-day, at which reference was made to Monday night’s meeting of the police, and the opinion was expressed that it would be well if memlxns of the force acted with the greatest discretion in order not to prejudice the inquirynow proceeding nor the status of the force in relation to it.