§ 81. Mr. Albuasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give instructions that, when particulars of a police incident within the Metropolitan Police Area are released to the national Press through the Press Bureau at Scotland Yard, the local police shall also be allowed to give them to the local Press.
§ Mr. EdeInformation about police matters which is released to the national Press by the Press Bureau at New Scotland Yard is equally available to the local Press on application to the Bureau. Officers in charge of Police Stations in the Metropolitan Police District are authorised to give representatives of local newspapers items of local news which have come to their knowledge, but if local newspaper representatives require information about major crimes or matters of other than local interest they are referred to the Press Bureau. These arrangements have been made by the Commissioner of Police in the light of experience and I do not regard it as either necessary or desirable to decentralise any of the work of the Scotland Yard Press Bureau.