§ 75. Mr. Astorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are taken by the Metropolitan Police to efface the inscriptions of un-sponsored and illicit slogans from walls and public sites.
Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe: It is the practice of the police to invite the owner of the property to remove any such inscription, and to ask the local authority to give him any necessary help. It is also the practice for the police themselves to remove or obscure a slogan which is obscene or otherwise offensive.