Police, Hull (Incident) (Hansard, 6 February 1970)

§ Commander Pursey

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether he will arrange for an inquiry into the reasons why a Hull police constable, in darkness at night, took a legally separated husband in his police Panda car to his wife's house, with him forced his way into the house and took part in an hour's assault on the wife until ordered out by Crowle Street Police Station;

(2) whether he will call for a report from the chief constable as to why a Hull woman, who made a complaint of assault by her legally separated husband and a police constable, was detained at the Central Police Station for four and a half hours, and as to why, soon after she had left the station, two other criminal investigation department officers were sent to her house to ask her to go to the station on the following day for a second statement, when she was detained for two and a quarter hours;

(3) whether he will call for a report from the chief constable as to why two statements of complaint by a Hull woman of assault by her legally separated husband and a police constable were taken, one by a Crowle Street male inspector and the other by a Gordon Street female criminal investigation detective officer, and as to any discrepancies between these two statements and one taken from a witness;

(4) whether he will call for a report from the chief constable as to why a senior Hull police officer instructed a Gordon Street criminal investigation department woman officer to take a second statement from a woman who had complained of an assault by her legally separated husband and a police constable, omitting all references to the police constable;

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(5) whether he will call for a report from the chief constable as to why a senior Hull police officer give instructions that a woman's complaint of assault in her own house by her legally separated husband and a police constable, which was witnessed by another woman, was to be dropped.