§ 31. Sir CHARLES OMANasked the Secretary of State for India whether he has yet received information as to the reduction or otherwise of the numbers of the police force in the United Provinces in 1931?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Sir Samuel Hoare)The report received by me covers only the period between August, 1931, and February, 1932, in which the only reduction in the permanent sanctioned strength of the police force in the United Provinces was one of one head constable and five constables in the armed police following the abolition of a tahsil in the Kumaun Division. In the latter part of last year the temporary special force which the United Provinces Government had appointed as a result of the civil disobedience and revolutionary movement was reduced by 10 sub-inspectors, 27 head constables, 62 naiks and 630 constables, but in January, owing to the no-rent campaign, it was increased again by one sub-inspector, two head constables and 63 constables.