The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-07-26
PAY OF LONDON POLICE.


Not Liberal, Even as Pay Goes in England
and Not to Compare with Fay Here.
It costs close upon 100000 a year
to police London. There are in the
Metropolitan police force Is. 04o men OF
all ranks, and their pay, clothing and
equipment alone costs the tax payers
of the big city 81, 343, $50 a year Then
there is the pay Of the commissioners,
doctors, clerical staff and workmen
generally; the maintenance of stations
and offices, and the thousand and one
miscellaneous items of cost in the OPP
GRAFTON of the department, which brings
the total cost OF the machinery for
guarding the peace of the British
metropolis few pounds short of e.,
O00, 900 a year.
There are 1855 ordinary policemen
on the force. They are all called con
stables" there being only one grade
below that of sergeant. The pay OF a
constable varies between 24s- a week,
the pay of new recruit, and e8S l2s-
lid a year, the maximum pay of an
ordinary constable. There Were last
wear ! O99 men on the London police
force receiving 24s. week, which
is scarce $500 American money,
although the mere comparison OF
money value is, of course, no criterion
of the adequacy of the pay for the
place Clothing is supplied TO the con-
sta bles free, or If, from any reason Of
special duty, a consta bic does not draw
his supply of clothes from the govern
ment stores, he receives 25 a year in
place of clio thing.
The sergeants, who come next in
rank to consta bles, number 1,T79.
Their pay is from $50 to e15l year,
according to the length of service
and Importance of command They
also receive clothes free, OF a money
allowance of $40 year
Next above the sergeants are the in
spectorS. who number GAL, and are
rated as first, second and third class
They receive pay according to rank
and service varying between $50 and
9351 year. They, too, are entitled to
clothing free, or money allowance in
lieu of the clothes. Inspectors In the
detective department get SIS year
clothing allowance
Ranking the inspectors are thirty su-
perintendents. One of these receives
e475 a year, two receive GAGS, eleven
G4OG, and the pay scales down to $500
a year. Superintendentss are allowed
forms.
At the head of the different districts
are five chief oonstables- Three of
these get 9775 year and two e675.
The head of the whole department is a
chief commander who receives Ell 800 a
year, and associated with him in
the government of the force are three
assistant commissioners, who receive
Inv nj
iowance, with an extra e1O5 divided
among them for sta bling. The chief
commissioner also gets e3OO a year
house allowance The salaries and al
lovances OF the commissioners Office
amount to s25. 416 a year.
This matter of allowances is an i'm
portant one in the remuneration re-
ceived by every member OF the force.
Consta bles, for instance, receive an al
Iowance of coal money when they are
not living in the stations Married
men get fourpence q week and single
men thrcepence half-penny week.
Married men living in stations receive
forty pounds of coal week the year
round; single men forty pounds q
week in winter and twenty pounds in
summer. This item of coal and coal
allowance amounted TO eI4,G last
year.
The London policeman has by no
means 50 good job, so far Us remu
neration is concerned, as has the New
York policeman. making all allow
ance for the difference IN comparative
values there and here. Nor has he
nearly so fine a place in comparison
with the lot of the average Londoner
as the New York policeman has com
pared with that of the average New
Yorker Indeed. the London police
man is poorly paid even as pay goes in
England-N Y Sun.