§ Mr. VIANTasked the Home Secretary whether, in giving effect to the favourable recommendations of the Departmental Committee on the employment of women police, he is proposing to issue a statutory regulation imposing on police authorities the duty of including one or more women on the strength of every police force?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON - HICKSNo, Sir. This is a matter which I must leave to the discretion of the local police authorities, as the Committee recommended.