§ MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any other constable has retired or has been dismissed from the Metropolitan police force in connection with the case of the constable who was convicted and sentenced to five years penal servitude for perjury; whether he can state the cause of such retirement or dismissal; and whether any indemnity was promised to the said constable for his acts.
(Answered by secretary Akers-Douglas.) One other constable was permitted to resign (this being equivalent to dismissal) for using unnecessary violence when assisting to convey to the police station the prosecutor in the case referred to, and for other reasons which, in the Commissioners' opinion, made him unfit to remain in the force. No indemnity was promised to him.