HC Deb 09 July 1953 vol 517 cc1476-7
37. Brigadier Medlicott

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent the shortage of police necessary for enforcing more stringent parking regulations, restricts the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis from encouraging or participating in any bold measures for the removal of congestion from London streets.

Sir H. Lucas-Tooth

Although the Metropolitan police are undoubtedly handicapped by the existing manpower shortages in dealing as comprehensively as the Commissioner of Police would wish with the various causes of traffic congestion in London I am assured that the Commissioner would not be deterred for this reason from encouraging or participating in any scheme which he thought likely to assist in the removal of congestion from the London streets.