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[Apartheid- Springbok Tour interview with Police Commissioner Bob Walton]

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1981
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24783
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Year
1981
Reference
24783
Media type
Audio

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Duration
00:05:26
Broadcast Date
14 Sep 1981
Credits
RNZ Collection
Billington, Neil, Interviewer
WALTON, Bob, Interviewee

Neil Billington interviews Police Commissioner Bob Walton about the position of the police during the 1981 Springbok Tour.

They review the police stand during the Springbok tour, during which the Commissioner says they were restrained and impartial and the level of violence was set by the protestors - and not the police.

He hopes relations between police and the public have not been harmed as a result of the Tour.

He says upholding the rule of law was paramount, and 'mob rule' could not be allowed to take over. He says police frontline tactics have improved dramatically as a result of policing the Tour.