§ DR. COOPER (Southwark, Bermondsey)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state how many inspectors, sergeants, and constables it is calculated must be added to the Metropolitan Police Force to give each man one day's rest in seven.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The required number of officers of each of these ranks would be twenty-seven
†See (4) Debates, clxxi., 40.79 inspectors, 138 sergeants, and 1,378 constables.