Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-05
PAY OF LoNpoN POLICE.
Not Liberal, Even as Pay Goes In England
and Not TO Compare with Pay Here

Not Liberal Even Pay Goes In England
and Not TO Compare with Pay Here
1t costs close upon SO, G00, 900 yeai
to police London There are in the
Metropolitan police force Is, O40 men of
all ranks, and their pay. clothing and
equipment alone costs the tax payers
of the big city 81, 343, $50 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 a few pounds short of g.,
900, 600 a year.
There are 1885 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 Gas week,
the pay of a new recruit, and ess 12s.
lid. a year, the maximum pay of an
ordinary constable. There were last
year 1,099 men on the London police
force receiving 24s. a 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, constable does not draw
his supply of clothes from the govern
ment stores, he receives e5 a year In
place of clio thing.
The sergeants, who come next in
rank to constables, number 1,779-
Their pay is from ESQ to eI51 a year.
according to the length of service
and Importance of command. They
also receive clothes free, or 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
e351 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 SUI
perintendents. One of these receives
e475 a year, two receive GAPS, eleven
e4OO, and the pay scales down to e3OC
year. SuperiRtendents are allowed
from 81 to SIS a year each for uni
forms.
At the head of the different districts
are five chief constables- Three OF
these get FITS a year and two e675.
The head of the whole department is a
chief commander who receives 81, 500 a
year, and associated with him in
the government of the force are three
assistant commissioners, who receive
$500 year salary and 1900 house al
lOwance, with an extra 2105 divided
among them for stabling. The chief
commissioner also gets $500 a year
house allowance. The salaries and al
lowances of the commissioners Office
amount to e25, 416 year.
This matter of allowances is an i'm
portant one in the remuneration re-
ceived by every member of the force.
Constables, for instance, receive an al
lowance of coal money when they are
not living in the stations. Married
men get fourpence a week and single
men threepence half-penny a week.
Married men living in stations receive
forty pounds of coal week the year
round; single men forty pounds a
week in winter and twenty pounds in
summer. This item of coal and coal
allowance amounted to e14,O $50 last
year.
The London policeman has by no
means SO good a job, SO far as 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
with haf Of he
Yorker. Indeed, the London police
man is poorly paid even as pay goes in
England.-N. Y. Sun.