Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Viscount Turnour
, Horsham
12:00,
8 December 1949
While the answer of the right hon. Gentleman is very satisfactory in so far as it meets the points put in the Question, is he aware that the fact remains that very often when hold-ups on shops are being made, the constable is employed in the near neighbourhood jotting down in his notebook particulars either of street hawking or of the parking of cars, and that a clever criminal can pretty well find out what the policeman is doing?