POLICE FORCE
DIFFICULTY IN MAINTAINING STRENGTH
NEED OF HOLDING PRESENT MEMBERS. STATEMENT BY SUPERINTENDENT (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. “There is a shortage of men and we are continually recruiting, but are never able to keep up to our authorised strength," said Police Superintendent C. W. Lopdell, when inquiries were made as to the position of the Police Force in the district. He emphasised that the force, though seeking recruits, did not intend to relax its standards, but said it was probable that men of not quite the same physical standard might be taken for special work for the duration of the war only.
Mr Lopdell added: “Our duties are always increasing and becoming more urgent, but our manpower always threatens to be decreased by the d(> sire of many of our members to get away, although regulations have now prohibited this.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 6
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143POLICE FORCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 6
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