§ MR. LOUGH (Islington W.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can see his way to place the Metropolitan Police, with regard to Sunday duty, in the same position as the police of rural districts and the City, so that the men in town districts may perform their eight hours duty in one tour, and thus he able to enjoy a longer period of unbroken leisure.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The conditions obtaining on Sunday in the rural districts and in the City of London are entirely different from the conditions under which police work has to be done on that day in the inner divisions of the Metropolitan Police area; and, after careful consideration and consultation with the Commissioners of Police, I am convinced that it would not be desirable in the public interest to alter the existing arrangement in the manner suggested.