St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-01
PAY or LONDON POLICE.
Not Liberal. Even ~ Pay Goes In EA9l0n
aud Not to Compare with Pay Hero.

aud Not to Compare with Pay Here.
1t costs close upon SO, ,OOO, 900 year
to police London. There are in the
Metropolitan police forcs 5,O40 men Of
all ranks. and their pay. clothing and
equipment alone costs the tax payers
of the big city 81, ,343, ,959 . 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 Op
Grafton of the department, which brings
the total cost of the machinery foI
guarding the peace Of the British
metropolis q few pounds short OF g..
900. 900 year.
There are l2.5s5 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 c4s. a week.
the pay Of a new recruit, and 4sS 12s.
lid. q year, the maximum pay Of IN
ordinary constable. There were last
year 1909 men ON the London police
force receiving 2ls. week, which
Is scarce $500 American money,
although the mere comparison o1
money value is. of course, NO criterion
of tho adequacy of the pay for the
place. Clothing is supplied to the CON.
stables free, or If, from any reason Of
special duty, constable does not draw
his supply of clothes from the govern
ment stores, he receives s5 . year IN
place Of clio thing.
The sergeants, who come next IN
rank to constables,, number l,779
Their pay is from $50 to 415l . year
according to the length of servics
and Importance of command. They
also receive clothes free, or . money
allowance Of f1O a 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 ranl
and service varying between ESQ and
e35l a year. They, too, are entitled tc
clothing free, or money allowance in
lieu of the clothes. Inspectors in the
detective department get ELS year
clothing allowance.
Ranking the inspectors are thirty su'
perintendents. One of these receive.
4475 a year, two receive 4425, clever
94OO, and the pay scales down to ESQ
a year. Superintendents are allowed
from ELL to Els q year each for uni
forms.
At the head of the different district,
are five chief constables. Three o
these get E775 = year and two G6!s
The head of the whole department Is
chief commander who receives 81. 800 Z
year, and associated with him II
the government of the force are thre,
assistant commissioners. who receiv,
EsO0 year salary and $500 house al
lowance, with an extra E105 divides
among them for stabling. The chic
commissioner also gets R300 a yea
house allowance. The salaries and al
lowances of the commissioners offic'
amount to s25, ,416 a year.
This matter of allowances is an i'm
portant ono in the remuneration re
ceived by every member of the force
Constables, for instance. receive An al
lowance of coal money when they ar
not living in the stations Marriet
men get fourpence = week and single
men threepence half-penny = week
Married men living in stations receive
forty pounds of coal = week the yea
round: single: men forty pounds .
week in winter and twenty pounds IL
summer. This item of coal and Goa
allowance amounted to El4,050 las
year.
The London policeman has by nc
means so good job, so far rs remu
neration is concerned, rs has the New
York policeman, making all allow
ance for the difference in comparative
values there and here. Nor has h
nearly so fine = place in comparison
with the lot Of the average Londonel
as the New York policeman has com
pared with that of the, average Nev
Yorker. Indeed, the London police
man is poorly paid even as pay goes il
England.-N. Y. Sun.