§ Mr. W. SHAWasked the Home Secretary if the police authorities are giving inducements to domestic servants to become policewomen; if he will endeavour, as far as possible, in future to recruit these women from the ranks of the unemployed; and will he say how many additional policewomen it is intended to engage?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe Metropolitan Police are certainly not offering such inducements, and I have no reason to think any county or borough police are doing so. The establishment of Metropolitan women police is at full strength, and there is no intention of increasing it.