HC Deb 24 July 1984 vol 64 c579W
Mr. Tom Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it is the practice in London for a person who seeks to make a complaint against a police officer to be given the name of the police officer who is the subject of the complaint.

Mr. Hurd

Where the identity of an officer who is the subject of a complaint has been established, it is the practice of the Metropolitan police to provide on request the officer's name, warrant number and the police station to which he is attached.

Mr. Tom Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it is the practice in London for a person making a statement at a police station to be allowed to write out the statement himself.

Mr. Hurd

A statement will normally be written down as dictated, but if a person making a statement makes a specific request to write it out himself, he will be allowed to do so.