Police Recruitment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 December 1973.

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Photo of Mr Robert Carr Mr Robert Carr , Mitcham 12:00, 6 December 1973

Certainly, that is very much a part of our wish. The numbers are increasing but they are doing so slowly. We want to see much higher numbers. I can assure the House that that is the view of the commissioner and his staff. I am not sure that it is wise to make too directional a recruitment effort as long as we make it clear, as we are doing increasingly, that coloured policemen are very welcome and very much wanted.