§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it has been brought to Ins notice that every week men with less than two years' service leave the Metropolitan Police force; and whether he can state the total number of men with less than two years' service who have left during the past year, and how this compares with the number of those who left with the same amount of service ten years ago.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolMen of short service (not limited to two years, but from three months upwards) leave the force every week, and have always done so for fairly obvious reasons. There has not been time to ascertain the proportion of men of not more than two years' service who resigned voluntarily during the years mentioned in the question.