POLICE STATE?

According to a newspaper report, a motorist was brought before Dungannon petty sessions on a charge of having splashed a police Sergeant by driving his car at 25 m.p.h. through a 5-ft.-wide pool of water which had formed in the roadway-the sergeant standing on the pavement in plain clothes. The case was brought by the District Police Inspector.

We are delighted to know that the Resident Magistrate, Mr. W. Miller. said that if this constituted careless driving all traffic would be brought to a standstill in snow and slush. He dismissed the case. But, as the reader who sent us the cutting comments : “What will the police think Of next ?”