LONDON PARKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7

LONDON PARKS.

DUTY OF POLICE.

QUESTION IN COMMONS

(Australian Press Association.-—United

Service.) Received Alay 8, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Alay 7

Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, in answer to a series of questions, said that he realised that tho recent Hyde Park case (concerning Sir Leo Chiozza Aloney and Aliss Irene Savage) raised a grave issue, into which he was fully inquiring. Referring to the general question of the police procedure in the case, he stated that he would bring the matter under the notice of the committee now inquiring into street offences. He and flie Police Commisisoner wore considering whether to hold ail enquiry, or whether the officers concerned were guilty of perjury, in which case it would be a matter for another court. Sir J. H. Davidson, Conservative member for Ilemel Hempstead: Why use plain clothes instead of uniformed constables ? Is it the object of the police to censor morals or merely to prevent annoyance to people using the park. , Sir William Joynson-Hicks : Nineteen out of 21 Hyde Park police aro not in uniform. It is not a question of morals. It is tho bounden duty of the police to see that public parks are not used in such a way as to bo an offence and a disgrace. A personal investigation has shown that additional lighting would be extraordinarily useful.