§ DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state the number of police stationed in county Mayo in each year from 1895 to 1900, inclusive; how many extra police have been employed during that period, and at what cost, and how many extra police are employed in county Mayo at present.
§ MR. WYNDHAM486, 500, 473, 470, 468, and 487, respectively. An extra force of fifty men was employed in the county from March, 1898, to May, 1900, at a cost to the rates of £3,739 10s. 4d. There have been no extra police in the county since May, 1900.
§ DR. AMBROSEWhat has become of the extra police who were employed there?
§ [MR. WYNDHAM made no reply.]
§ DR. AMBROSEI will put the question down for to-morrow.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThey have gone back to their duties elsewhere.
§ DR. AMBROSEDoes it not follow, then, that some place is over-policed?
§ [No answer was given.]