PAY OF THE REGULAR POLICE. Joint Memorandum by the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Scotland.

-2- 4. These claims were resisted by the Home Office and t Scottish Office before the war, and the Departments were supported by the representatives of at any rate the City Borough police authorities in England and Wales and of a### the police authorities in Scotland. Since the war, howe the position of the Departments has become much more diff if not impossible, to maintain, because all the police authorities in England and Wales, and a number of authori in Scotland, now support the claim of the Police Federati for the withdrawal of the Higgins scale, on the broad gro that it does not adequately reflect the present day value a policeman's services.