§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state how many police inspectors have left the force during the past year; and in how many of these cases have inspectors on leaving gone round and solicited the publicans in the district to subscribe to a testimonial for them.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.Forty-two Metropolitan Police Inspectors left the force during the year ended 31st March, 1906. Several of these Inspectors received testimonials to which no publicans are believed to have subscribed, but only in one instance is there reason to suspect that the Inspector may have solicited publicans to subscribe.