§ 27. Mr. MITCHESONasked the Home Secretary the approximate daily average of Metropolitan police officers in attendance at police courts as witnesses; and what percentage of the total cases at such courts relate to motor vehicle offences other than those involving or calculated to involve injury to persons?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe best available information is the result of a special investigation in respect of the month of March, 1932. It was then found that an average of 350 members of the force attended court each day, about 140 of them being engaged in connection with traffic offences of all kinds. Arrangements have since been made to reduce the time of absence from other duty involved by attendance at court.