Young persuaded his police authority to fund a building program so that in six years every married man in the county force would have a police house ; the design and equipping of these houses was agreed between the county architects and a `` housing committee '' , recruited through the county Police Federation , not only of men of all ranks but , at Young 's insistence , of officers ' wives . Young persuaded his police authority to fund a building program that in six years would provide a police house for every married man in the county force ; the design and equipping of these houses was agreed between the county architects and a `` housing committee '' , recruited through the county Police Federation , not only of men of all ranks but , at Young 's insistence , of officers ' wives .