Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 8 February 1940.
Sir William Brass
, Clitheroe
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider instructing the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, when trying to reduce road casualties, to experiment with the methods practised so successfully by the Lancashire police recently of showing the police and police cars clear to the public in order to act as a warning to careless and inconsiderate drivers instead of the secret trapping methods which aim more at prosecutions and convictions than at prevention?