THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC.
Though we have no wish to see the "cJud" and the revolver introduced here as a necessary feature of police equipment, the fact remains that the preservation of law and order is the primary duty of the State, and the police cannot be expected to enforce the law if they are left defenceless to face the ruffianism that so often disgraces our country, says the Auckland "Star." Nobody wants to see the police indulge in "free clubbing" here after the New ' York fashion. But the people who inveigh against the proposal to arm the police effectively appear to forget that the policeman has] his own / life to protect, and the police records in this country supply ample proof that the members of the Force constantly risk life and limb in en-
deavouring to effect arrests under the conditions that exist in the Dominion to-day.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9689, 13 January 1910, Page 4
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149THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9689, 13 January 1910, Page 4
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