§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the only police supervision over Newtonards Road, in the borough of Belfast, a leading thoroughfare nearly a mile long, which, with the streets running into it, contains a population of about 10,000, is one constable; whether complaints have been made of the lawlessness of some of the frequenters of the locality; and, whether he will take measures to have the grievances remedied?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the Police Supervisor on the road in (question employed six men on patrol duty and two Superintendents, and two men do the duty at night and one in the day. The head constable and sergeant visit the place at various times. No general complaints of the character mentioned have been made. There was some stone-throwing on the 17th of March; but the police made the offender amenable, and he was fined by the magistrates. The Constabulary authorities of Belfast do not consider it necessary to strengthen the Police Force in this locality, which they describe as the quietest part of the town.