Mr. Dugdaleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of police in the Metropolitan area engaged in seeing that vehicles are not parked in improper places; and what was the number of prosecutions made by them during the past year.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeIt is part of the normal duties of all police officers on beat and traffic patrol duty to enforce the law in regard to obstruction and waiting in restricted streets. In 1952, there were 18,075 prosecutions in the Metropolitan police district for obstruction by motor vehicles, and 969 for obstruction by horse-drawn and hand-propelled vehicles. There were 7,503 prosecutions in respect of motor vehicles waiting in a "no waiting" street, and 1,383 such prosecutions in respect of horse-drawn and hand-propelled vehicles. There were 103 prosecutions under Section 50 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, in respect of vehicles left in a dangerous position.