Detective Dismissed
ASSAULTED A SEAMAN "CONDUCT NOT TOLERATED” (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, To-day. Acting-Detective Cooper yesterday tendered a compulsory resignation from the police force, and was immediately discharged. His dismissal was the result of his assaulting a seaman named Smith, who secured £ls damages in a civil court case at Wellington on Friday. Cooper, who comes from Auckland, and who was one of the Dominion’s best-known detectives, has on two occasions been fined at pri rate police inquiries for assault. A lew years ago he was fined £3, and for assaulting Smith he was fined £2. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. J. Mcllveney, stated to-day that he had nothing to say beyond the face that such improper conduct as Cooper had been guilty of would not be tolerated in the force.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 11
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132Detective Dismissed Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 11
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