Attacking the police system of taking statements in notebooks as evidence, a London cablegram states,- Mr Justice Cassels, of the High Court, declared: “Our police officers are brought up to believe that provided a man isn’t dead they must somehow or other get a statement from him and it must go into their notebooks. “I wouldn’t trust a policeman to write down accurately anything that is said to him, because I know how often it is inaccurate. I think it would be more satisfactory for persons from whom statements are to be taken to insist on the policeman handing over his notebook and to write a statement in it themselves.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1943, Page 2
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