HC Deb 16 June 1969 vol 785 cc29-30W
Mr. Peter Mahon

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will issue advice to police authorities that they should discontinue the practice under which they encourage informants to participate in crime, of which they have previously imparted information to the police authority.

Mr. Callaghan

It is a well recognised principle, of which I have recently reminded chief constables, that no member of a police force, and no informant, should counsel, incite or procure the commission of a crime.