The Home Secretary made an important statement in regard to
the police in the House of Commons on Friday week. The police, he said, had grievances which should have been remedied before now. The Government intended, however, that every policeman should receive not lees than £3 10s. a week to begin with, dating from April 1st, that the penaione and allowances should be revised, that the London police should be housed nearer their work, and that a policeman on retiring or his widow at his death should receive a lump sum in return for a small yearly subscription. They had no desire to militarize theLondon police, but wished to make it a contented and zealots force. The Government had given the National Union of Police and Prison Officers a trial and had found it wanting. The Union Executive had broken its pledge not to interfere with discipline, and was mixed up with the extreme adyocates of social revolu- tion. The Government would therefore set up an Association within the police forces, and would then forbid policemen to belong to any Trade Union.
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