§ Flight-Lieutenant R. Ethertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Metropolitan Police have been instructed not to check the speed of vehicles of the armed forces; if not, whether he can account for the view generally held by constables that such vehicles are not to be checked by them; and will he state the number of prosecutions against drivers of service vehicles in the last convenient 12-monthly period?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonNo such instructions have been issued to the Metropolitan Police and I can find no foundation for the suggestion of my hon. and gallant Friend that there is some general misapprehension among police officers on this subject. The number of prosecutions would provide no measure of police activities in this matter, because it has been the general practice of the police to report instances of excessive speed by Service vehicles to the Service authorities with a view to appropriate action by them.