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THE SELF-APPOINTED. PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OỬ THE JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (JrOA) SPENT THE NOWTH TRYING TO PROMOTE
THEJA DIACZ POTH 12 THE EYES OF THE RANK AIM PILE AID OF THE PUBLIC. IN THE EARLIER PART OF THE MONTH THEIR ACTIVITIES WERE
LARGELY CONFINED TO GENKING PUBLICITY FOR AUTIONS DESIGNED TO
SHOW THAT THEY WERE CONCEASED ABOUT THE WELFARE OF OPDINARY
PEOPLE. IN THE LATTER PART OF THE NORTH THEY ATTEMPTED MORE
DRAMATIC TACTICS WHICH VERGED ON A CONFRONTATION WITH THE POLICE
LEADERSHIP.
DETAILS.
2. ON 23RD JANUARY THE DECISIONS OF THE POLICE DISCIPLINARY
HEARINGS INTO THE HUTCHISON HOUSE INCIDENT OF 20TH OCTOBER VERE
ANNOUNCED IN THE PRESS. OF THE FOURTEEN OFFICERS CHANGED, FOUR WERE ORDERED TO BE DISMISSED, SIX WERE FINED AND GIVEN SUSPENDED
SENTENCES OF DISMISSAL AND THE REMAINING FOUR WERE ACQUITTED,
THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE HAD EARLIER EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT
THE DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINCS, PREDICTABLY, THEY CLAIMED THAT THE
SENTENCES WERE TOO SEVERE AND SAID THEY WOULD BACK AN APPEAL.
WHILE EMOTION ON THE ISSUE WAS DUILDING UP THEY WERE TOLD THAT
ONE OF THEIR MIM. CRS,
WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED BY POLICE HEAD-
QUARTERS AS A FUTURE, FULL-TIME, PAID STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE JPOA.
THE COMMITTEE SEIZED ON THIS ISSUE AS AN EXAMPLE OF INTERFERENCE
IN THE ASSOCIATION'S AFFAIRS, THEY COUPLED IT WITH THE
DISCIPLINARY DECICIOLS IN THE HUTCHISON HOUSE CASE TO MUSTER
SUPPORT FROM THE RANK AND FILE.
3. 011 25TH JANUARY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE
ANNOUNCED OVER TELEVISION! AND TO THE PRESS THAT ALL COUNTTEE
HEMBERS EXCEPT HIMSELF HAD RESIGNED BECAUSE INTERFERENUL FROM
POLICE HEADQUARTENS PREVENTED THEM FROM CARRYING OUT THEIR
DUTIES.
AT A MEETING LATER IN THE DAY, HELD NJ A TENUE AND EMOTIONAL ATMOSPHERE, ABOUT THREE HUNDRED RANK AND FILE, INCLUDING
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