HC Deb 28 February 1985 vol 74 cc249-50W
27. Mr. Corbett

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is satisfied with the priority given by the Metropolitan police to combating rising rates of burglary.

Mr. Giles Shaw

The continuing inclusion of burglary in his strategy for 1985 as one of the Commissioner's operational priorities has our full support. I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) on 20 December, at columns 288–89, of the measures the Commissioner has introduced to further police effectiveness in the investigation of burglary.