NO COMPLAINTS
POLICE INSPECTOR'S VISIT POSITION IN WHAKATANE In an interview with a BEACON representative yesterday, Inspector D, A. Maclean, of Gisborne, stated that lie was very interested in the number of letters coining forward in these columns, relative to £he control exercised by the local police. His visit was purely a departmental one, but lie expressed surprise at the fact that in spite of the volume of complaints ventilated in the press, not one under the same heading had ever reached headquarters. If there were people in Whakatane wh,o considered they had a legitimate complaint to make about anything concerning the misdemeanour of sections of the public it was surely their duty to let the police know. He considered that aTter having been round the whole district that the conduct of the people generally was as good ns in any other place in New Zealand. He spolce from experience in this connection, having been stationed at different times m centres in both Islands.
While there were admittedly certain types of individuals wlio gave trouble in any community, it was the duty of person? who had first hand knowledge of their behaviour to report the mr.tter to the police,, or to his office if they so desired. If they cared to take the matter higher they could write the Commissioner himself or even the Minister of Justice. The police, once they knew o< any person breaking the law or of committing an offence, were in a position to act and would do so, but if people who witnessed undesirable incidents merely passed them by without saying anything it became impossible to follow them up. Police; officers could not be expected to be at every street corner or in every side avenue at all times of the day or night.. Inspector Maclean said he had yet to learn of any genuine upon which the police coultl take action, and would therefore welcome information of this nature, wjiich would assist towards correcting the state of affairs allegedly existing in the town and district*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 280, 7 March 1941, Page 4
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341NO COMPLAINTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 280, 7 March 1941, Page 4
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