§ MR. FIENNESI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any and what instructions are given to a police constable to obtain the names and addresses of bystanders who witness the arrest of a person in a public place for an offence there committed.
§ MR. GLADSTONENo general instructions could usefully be given to police constables on the subject; on the one hand a constable's attention would in most cases be fully taken up in attending to his prisoner, while, on the other hand, oven if he had an opportunity of asking bystanders for their names and and addresses, the bystanders would be under no obligation to give them.
§ MR. FIENNESBut what facilities are accorded to a person arrested in the streets to got together his witnesses?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI should like time to answer that Question. I think that full facilities should as far as possible be given.