§ 81. Mr. John Fraserasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will ask the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to defer plans for reorganising the district and area organisation of the police until the proposals have been debated in Parliament.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe Commissioner's plans for reorganising the Metropolitan police will be implemented over the next two years. As my right hon. and learned Friend said on 17 January, at columns 175–76, in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, North (Mr. Wheeler) he hopes, subject to the usual consultations, that it will be possible to find time before Easter to give the House an opportunity to debate the Commissioner's recent report to him on his plans and priorities for the coming year.
§ 82. Mr. Mikardoasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to assess (a) public support and (b) public opposition amongst the community in relation to the proposed changes in the management structure of the Metropolitan police.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has assured me that he will be consulting widely about the detailed development and implementation of his plans to restructure the force within the broad outline he has already announced. My right hon. and learned Friend has invited right hon. and hon. Members for constituencies in the Metropolitan police district to discuss with him, as police authority, any matters arising from the Commissioner's recent report to him, including the reorganisation of the force.