HC Deb 02 March 1966 vol 725 c321W
Sir C. Osborne

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attacks with violence have been made on bank clerks, post office officials and other workers entrusted with wages and money in the last 12 months; in view of the increase and the brutality of these crimes, if he will reintroduce corporal punishment for them; and if he will make a statement.

Miss Bacon

Comprehensive information is not available for the country as a whole. In the Metropolitan Police District, the number of offences known to the police in 1965 of robbery of persons who, in the course of their employment,

Percentage variations
1964 1964 1964 1964 1964
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959
Number of offences of murder known to the police 141 135 132 143 133 155 +16.5 +8.4 +17.4 +14.8 +9.9