§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the recent marked increase in burglary, hand-bag snatching, and other forms of petty thieving in the Palmer's Green and Winchmore Hill districts of Middlesex; whether he is aware that the nearest police station is situated at Old Southgate, some miles away; whether he has already received representations as to the impossibility of sufficient police supervision being exercised in this growing neighbourhood without erecting a police barracks on the land in Green Lanes, N., which was acquired some years ago for the purpose; and, if so, what action does he propose to take in the matter?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI am informed by the Commissioner of Police that there has been only the normal amount of crime in the district in question, and that the police are able to deal satisfactorily with such crime as occurs. The question of building an additional police station to supplement that at Southgate does not yet arise, but will be considered when the development of the district is such as to justify it.