§ SIR EARDLEY WILMOTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If some arrangement could not be made whereby the police in the metropolitan and rural districts could be provided with a lighter covering for the head during the summer months than the present heavy helmet, which fits closely, and is consequently very oppressive to the men, especially where they have to walk a considerable distance to their beats?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that some of the corps of the Metropolitan Police had already been provided with a lighter head dress, with light steel hoops, than the one hitherto in use, and that it was intended to extend this change to the rest of the Metropolitan Police; but the Home Office had nothing to do with the matter as affecting the county and borough police.