Major MALONEasked the Home Secretary whether, since the dismissal of Police-constable Gunner, No. 528 R, he has received any representation from the men of the police force complaining of such dismissal?
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§ Sir H. GREENWOODNo specific representation has been received from the men on behalf of ex-Police Constable Gunner who, after being twice previously convicted of similar offences, was dismissed the force for not working his beat between 1a.m. and 5.20 a.m., at which hour he was found leaving his lodgings. Reference to this case may have been intended in resolutions from the Police and Prison Officers' Union, which have been received, protesting against "the recent vicious punishments inflicted on members of the Metropolitan Police." In every case of dismissal during 1919, with the exceptions of ex-Police-constable Spackman and one other constable who was found in suspicious association with a person since convicted of receiving stolen property, the offence has been of a similar nature to that committed by ex-Police-constable Gunner.