§ 35. Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have taken place for breach of the peace in the Mayfair area of London during the present year.
§ Mr. DeedesI have assumed the hon. Member's Question to refer to prosecutions for assault or for using insulting words or behaviour whereby a breach of the peace might have been occasioned. So far this year six persons have been prosecuted by the police for one or other of these offences in the Mayfair area. In one case the charge was dismissed.
§ Mr. ThomsonIs the Minister aware that on the night of 25th May some Guards officers and their girl friends performed dangerous antics on the roof of a building in Curzon Street, and threw glasses of champagne down on passersby? Will he make sure that breaches of the peace are treated by the police as breaches of the peace and not just as cases of youthful high spirits because they happen to occur among the rich and influential?
§ Mr. DeedesThe best answer that I can give the hon. Member is that the police have no record of any disorder in the streets of Mayfair this year caused by people attending parties.