Police ("Black List")

HC Deb 22 November 1973 vol 864 cc483-4W

54. Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will obtain from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis a copy of the Assistant Commissioner (Crimes) consolidated instructions, referred to as the Black List, and publish details of this in the OFFICIAL REPORT, or place of copy in the House of Commons Library, and publish the list of Members of Parliament named in these instructions, or notify the Members whose names are included in the report.

Mr. Carlisle

This document gives operational guidance to police officers and it ought not to be given currency outside the Metropolitan Police.