The Police Commission.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42751, 22 July 1905, Page 2

The Police Commission.

By Telegram. —Press AssociationChristchurch. This day. Ax the Police Commission Inspector Gillies said that instructions to Sergteants were to pay as many surprise visits as possible. The Sub-inspector had too much to do, and the city was insufficiently stalled. Ten more constables were wanted, lie Inui heard a hint that McD maid was guilty of stealing fruit in Christchurch. Ho made enquiries, and found the story absolutely untrue. Ho never heard any other charges of theft against the police. Sub-Inspector Dwyer con liberated this evidence, but said it was true that McDonald was caught stealing fruit, and had to pay for it. At the Police Commission, Sergeant Donovan, who liad been in charge of the night section at Dunedin, said lie had reported more men in Dunedin than all other Isergeants put together, lie liad given information of suspected robberies to the Inspector, and found the latter did not seem friendly disposed towards him. If several men formed a combination it would bo hard io detcet it. A large number of sergeants and constables gave levidence, all stating that at the time McDonald committed the theft here the matter was not generally known or spoken off.