§ * MR. REESI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there are any reasons why the police are not included in the civil services of the Crown; and whether such exclusion extends to the higher and highest or is limited to the lower and lowest ranks.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe police forces of England and Wales were created and are maintained, not by the Crown, but by a large number of police authorities under statutes wholly different from those regulating the civil service of the Crown. The only exceptions are the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioners of 1647 the Metropolitan Police who are appointed by the Crown, and for whose salaries provision is made in the Votes.