§ MR. WAITasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether recruiting parties are authorized to enlist members of police forces at all times, even when such members are actually on duty; and, if so, whether, having regard to the inconvenience and danger to which communities may be exposed by a number of the police officers enlisting for the purpose of avoiding punishments and engagements to which they may be liable, he would take into his consideration whether some regulation may not be made so that such recruits shall not be entitled to be billeted or attested until after the expiration of the calendar month's notice which they, as constables, are by Act of Parliament required to give before withdrawing themselves from their duties?
§ COLONEL STANLEYSir, no one has any right to enlist a police constable if it is known that he is such. I do not know of any case in which a constable has boon enlisted whilst on duty; and if the fact that a member of the police force had been enlisted whilst still a member of the force became known, I believe the enlistment would be cancelled.