asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce amendments to those police regulations which in their present form prevent police authorities from insuring police officers against personal injury because they are not their employers in law.

It is doubtful whether police authorities have an insurable interest in police officers, who are not employees and whose conditions of service are prescibed in detail in regulations. The Police Pension Regulations 1973, as amended, provide specifically for police officers who are injured or killed on duty. The benefits available to police officers injured on duty are currently being considered by the police negotiating board.