20. Mr. De la Bèreasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, when regular and auxiliary policemen are sent as reinforcements to other forces, he will consider allowing the auxiliary constables to receive the 3s. a day or 21s. a week which is paid to the regular constables, under Police Regulation 72, being the detachment allowance, since the auxiliaries are required for the same purpose as the regular constables.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonMembers of the regular police who are sent on reinforcing duties are paid detachment duty allowance by virtue of the long-standing conditions of service which apply to them as regulars. Members of the war-time auxiliary police, like the regular police, are in such circumstances given free board and lodging or an allowance in lieu and are thus not put to additional expense. I can see no sufficient justification for the payment of an additional detachment allowance to auxiliaries whose conditions of service are not assimilated to those of the regular police.
Mr. De la BèreDoes not my right hon. Friend appreciate that it is urgently necessary to have a review of the pay and conditions of the auxiliary police, in view of the difficulties which confront some of these men in maintaining their families on the existing rate of pay and allowances?
§ Mr. MorrisonThat is another question.