Orders of the Day — Government's Social Policy

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 March 1957.

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Photo of Mr Percy Shurmer Mr Percy Shurmer , Birmingham Sparkbrook 12:00, 19 March 1957

I cannot let the hon. Member's statement pass. I have been a member of a mental hospital committee for thirty years and I have never known a policeman attend such cases, unless the person has been brought from a prison where he had been confined and certified. This man must have had hallucinations. Two policemen could not have been sent to fetch him. and even the uniforms of our male nurses would not suggest that they were policemen. I have never heard of such a case.