Methods to be Altered

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 9

Methods to be Altered

ORDERS TO SCOTLAND YARD

Reports Before Parliament

British Official Wireless. Kecd. 11.9 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. THE House of Commons to-day considered the reports of the tribunal which inquired into the interrogation by the police at Scotland Yard of Miss Irene Savidge. following the dismissal of the Ilyde Park ease against her and Sir Leo Cheozza Money.

The tribunal delivered two reports —the majority report signed by Sir John Banks, a former Judge, and Mr. J. P. Withers, Conservative meniher of Parliament, and the minority report, signed by Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, a Labour member of Parliament. The majority report expressed the view that while no coercion was used in the interrogation, which was in accordance with the usual police practice, that practice would be amended so that when the character of the witness interrogated was involved, he or she should be duly informed beforehand of the nature of the interrogation and of the possible consequences.

every point raised in the minority report would be fully referred. Meanwhile he had given instructions amending the police procedure in the way suggested in the majority report. The majority report was accepted by 211 votes to 63.

The minority report, which expressed dissatisfation with the whole manner of interrogation, recommended an exhaustive inquiry into the methods of the police administration. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, stated during the debate that the Government was bound to accept the findings of the majority report, but he had decided to appoint a Royal Commission to which