HC Deb 28 July 1887 vol 318 c364
MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the test of the recent Order of the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, which contains the following paragraph, was shown to him before it was issued:— The police are drawn from the public, and are a selected body. Those who fail to do their duty, and are discovered, are returned to the ranks of the public. If, therefore, the allegations recently made against the police are in any way correct, they reflect with still greater force upon the public; and, whether he sanctioned the issue of the Order?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)

The Order referred to in the Question was not shown to me before it was issued, and accordingly it had not received my sanction.

MR. PICKERSGILL

As it appears that the Chief Commissioner of Police is alone responsible for this Order, I shall call further attention to it on the Vote for his salary.