Our Contemporaries
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3300600416 |
| Date | 01 October 1933 |
| Published date | 01 October 1933 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Our Contemporaries
THE Ceylon Police Gazette provides an admirable example of what can be
done to make The PoliceJournal better known to all ranks in police forces
overseas.
In
the issue dated June 28, four columns are devoted to descrip-
tions of various features which appeared in our January and April numbers,
together with some comments on those features. These extracts, it is
stated,
'are
published as providing useful matter for the instruction of all
ranks at Instruction Classes.' We only wish that there were more police
forces outside Ceylon which made similar use of our contents.
THE Ceylon Police Gazette for July 5 quotes some remarks by the Chief
Justice, made in the course of passing sentence on a motor driver convicted
of causing death by a negligent act.
His Lordship
said:
,
It
is clear that there is in this Island apercentage of drivers who are
defiant of the law and indifferent of human safety and human life, and I am
satisfied that it is not a high percentage, that the majority of drivers are
careful-from
my experience of other parts of the world where driving is
far worse and far more careless. But if that percentage is not discouraged
there would be more accidents and more deaths of perfectly innocent people
as on the night in question.
,With regard to these motor offences in many ways, in my opinion,
the best deterrent is the suspension or the cancellation of the licence. Fining
invariably means very little to a good many drivers and they do not worry
very much about imprisonment for short periods; cancellation of licence is,
I am perfectly convinced, the best way, so far as I can see, to
put
a stop to
motor offences.
,Driving a car on the high road is a thing one can only do if a public
authority gives licence to a person, and that licence is issued subject to
certain conditions that you use your licence properly.
If
the conditions are
broken then the person to whom the licence is given has broken his side of
the agreement and cannot complain if the licence is cancelled, and for the
simple protection of the public, I propose to cancel your licence for seven
years.'
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