POLICE SENSATION.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 2

POLICE SENSATION.

INSPECTOR AND OFFICERS RESIGN ...Z y DISCIPLINARY BOARD INQUIRY. The inspector in charge, eight other officers, and a number of men have resigned from the Willesden Green Branch of the Special Constabulary, the largest branch in North-Wesi London. Tiie officer in charge of the branch is Inspector Oatway. Interviewed by a pressman Inspector Oatway explained that differences of opinion between himself and the Commandant were on the question of the amount of training to be done by the men. “Since the present Commandant was appointed he has naturally been anxious to make the branch as efflcienl as possible, but he has been insisting on the men putting in two or three evenings a week in intensive training

“Asking Too Much.” ‘‘They are all husines men working during the daytime, very ready and willing to turn out in an emergency; but it is asking too much of them to expect them to put in two or three nights every week In training. “As I could not get things altered in any other way I asked to go before a disciplinary board with the Commandant. We saw Sir Walter Allan, and the upshot of it was that to save any further (rouble I said I would resign, and did so. “When they heard of it the whole of my officers resigned as well, and all Hie men who were at the station that night. Since then I understand that other men have resigned. “1 am very sorry that this has happened. My work in the Special Constabulary has cost me a great deal in time and money in keeping the men foveiher.” Inspector Oaf way has served in the Special Constabulary for 21 years, and several of the ofllcers and men who have resigned have been in the service for from 10 to 20 years.