§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the police inspector who was on duty at the crossing from Parliament Street to Palace Yard at 4.15 p.m. on Monday the 18th instant has yet reported the failure of the driver of a motor-car to obey the constable's signal to stop like other traffic; and whether he will say what steps he proposes to take to protect the public against the disregard of the orders of the police by motor-car drivers.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The result of most careful inquiry is that the inspector on duty at the crossing from Parliament Street to Palace Yard on 4.15 on Monday the 18th instant reports that he remembers having some conversation on that day with a Member of Parliament, but has no recollection of any motor-car disregarding a constable's signal to stop like other traffic. The police have instructions to take proceedings against drivers of motorcars equally with those of other vehicles who drive to the common danger.