A POLICEMAN'S DUTY
COMMISSIONER'S OBSERVATIONS TEMPERING JUSTICE WITH MERCY m~ 'Commissioner Cummings had some interesting observations to make to the large crowd assembled •at the farewell gathering to his •brother, Constable T. J. Cummings, fin the Winter Show Hall last Thurs •day evening. "The motto of the Force is to temper Justice with Mercy. A lot '■of people think that a policeman's duty is confined to running people In. There is nothing further from the truth. A policeman's first duty is to prevent people from doing wrong—not to proceed to punish them when they have committed ran offence. "Of course they have never succeeded from preventing all people from doing wrong but they had to try. When they failed it was their duty to administer Justice. The ordinary average person had nothing to fear from the police—only the criminal feared the law, and lie "would always have cause to do so. "Our duty is to assist the public in a hundred and one different ways Police constables can serve the public both socially and officially."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 128, 26 February 1940, Page 5
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175A POLICEMAN'S DUTY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 128, 26 February 1940, Page 5
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