§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Metropolitan police commissioner on the procedures which are followed by the Metropolitan police for investigating reports of malicious contamination of food products and for alerting other police forces about such cases.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggI understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that as soon as a case of malicious contamination of food products is reported to the police, it is immediately brought to the attention of the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Operations), specialist operations. He is responsible for deciding what action should be taken, for co-ordinating the investigating and deciding whether other police forces should be alerted.