The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-23
PAY OF LONDON POLICE.

4 Prom The New OK sun
1t costs close upon $1,000, 900 year
20 police London. There are in the
Metropolitan police force IS, 040 men Of
all ranks, and their pay, clothing and
| equipment alone costs the tax payers
of the big city e, 343.959 year. Then
| there is the pay of the commissioners,
| doctors, clerical staff and workmen
4 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 for
| guarding the peace of the British
metropolis few pounds short of g.
0O0. 900 year.
There are 12,5s5 ordinary policemen
on the force. They are all called con
stables there being only one grade
1 below that of sergeant. The pay of a
| consta bic varies between 24s. a week,
| the pay of new recruit, and ess I9s.
/ lid year, the maximum pay of an
/ ordinary constable. There were last
| year f,0se men on the London police
| force receiving 94s. 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
stables free, or if. from any reason of
special duty, a constable does not draw
his supply of clothes from the govern
place of clio thing.
The sergeants, who come next in
rank to consta bles. number 1.779.
Their pay is from $50 TO el5l year,
according to the length of service
and Importance of command They
also receive clothes free, or a money
allowance of $40 year.
Next above the sergeants are the in
spectors, who number GIL. and are
They receive pay according to rank
and service varying between csc and
e351 year They, too, are entitled to
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 receives
e475 year. two receive e425, eleven
e4OO. and the pay scales down TO $500
year. Superintendents are allowed
from Gil to Gl5 a year each for uni
forms.
At the head of the different districts
are five chief constables. Three of
these get e775 year and two es75.
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 s1O5 divided
among them for stabling. The chief
commissioner also gets ssoo a year
house allowance. The salaries and al
lowanceS of the commissioners Office
amount 10 f25.4l6 year.
This matter of allowances is an i'm
portant one in the remuneration re-
ceived by every mem Der 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 week.
Married men living in stations receive
forty pounds of coal week the wear
round; single men forty pounds a
week in winter and twenty pounds in
summer. This item of coal and coal
allowance amounted 10 El4,050 last
year.
The London policeman has by no
means so good a JOB, so far as remu-
neration is concerned, a. 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
Gs the New York policeman has com
pared with that Of the average New
Yorker Indeed. tho London police
man is poorly paid even as pay goes in
England.