TUB POLICE COMMISSION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 541, 23 June 1909, Page 7

TUB POLICE COMMISSION.

■ ':■, MB. ARNOLD "AND DE. Mr.: J. P, Arnoli?,-mdmbcr for Duneijin Centrnl, whoso.; oharßce :in' oonncotion with tho police' force, linve led'to tho appointment of Jrr. H. -W. . Bishop, S,M,,f i» o.'MoyeJ Commission,/ of , : informed a Dohjuion -~ interviewer Inst ' evening that he wns '.-.'delighted to find that the Minister fov Justico (tho-Hon, Dr. Kndlay) ran'.losing no timo in taking this matter in hjind, and intended to deal with it in : : a prantical miinncr. l 'This wne all that Mr. Arnold had';.desired, arid ho^-believed how that the'notion, ho hadtaken was the.only one likely to have .brought about this result;, Until ho know the exact eoppo of tho commission, and Jiow Mr. Bishop intondodto proceed, it was impossible for him to exprfc-anny opinion in regard to tho comiutseion boyond thai--ho was quito satieiied with ite: personnel, : Ha could;not, however,': undorstand the Minister's stating tlint t)ie ohftrges - in connection with tho force wore couohed in Vapuo nnd BCnoral terms. ..So : far as tho oasce which,, ho nnd mentioned wore concerned,; ho wns of opinion that'thoyweroi so pfiintod that there should bo no possiblo difficulty in those: who' had the reoorda in : \thcir possossion nsccrtnining the, truo facts. As to Dr., Fiudlay's statement that none of tho allegations had -uccii .sustained .on inquiry, . that .was most extraordinary, ns almost every 'constable in tlio Dominion knew tho full li'acts oC tho coses. Ho know, however, '.' i'* *ire Ministvi- hnd made inquiries, both.iv■'.>;■ ' ..aunissioiiei , Dtnnie and from tho ohie-f'. clerk'-.and iicoiintant' of the Police Department..-':',•' ::-.,' ... :

With regard, to' the Minister's fitatemout that ho woulii tukq an early opportunity of'-spook, inj; from tho.'platform on his Ministerial oonneotioi\ \rith tho'force, Mr. Arnold, had no comment to mnko, ■ but ho stated that if his charges were 'treated lightly nud reforms were not made, /cither with; qr .without tho.-aid of the commission,;ho also would luiyo something to say. both from the platform and place In.l'nrlinniont. Ho .would oortainly rito all tho assistance possible to the commission, but he wished it to bp madequito clear that ho did not intend-'.to placo luinself in thopoM-. tion of prosecutor of tho Police Doparlment ot any, imlivldiiiils. . 110 was asking for, more satisfactory, remuneration and; .better conditions for those iti tho Department, and that steps should bo taken to■scourc for the rcnfitli-.iwo; of jtho public -as- a whole, which lu> Dohbvod bid, to u great extant, been last.