POLICING OF LONDON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

POLICING OF LONDON

~ HUGE ANNUAL COST. MOST EXPENSIVE AREAS London spends inoro than £IO,OOO every year keeping policemen on duty covering less than half-an acre—Piccadilly Circus. It is Britain's most costly thoroughfare, although other parts of London run it close. In Oxford Circus, for instance, before automatic signals were erected, the police cost £7OOO a year. Marble Arch, with a greater area, costs £SOOO a year, and Hyde Park Corner £3OOO. Merry-go-rounds have saved a great deal of money, particularly in the Trafalgar Square and Northumberland Avenue area, hut even now this district costs £9OOO a year. Tho average policeman costs about £320 a year, and every beat about £IOOO a year. The Metropolitan Police Fund last year spent £8,654,378, in addition to which the City Corporation, in its own small territory, spent. £500,000. A station sergeant earns about £6 a week" with allowances, a chief inspector £9 13s, and a superintendent £l4. Three police officers, who

net as messengers at Scotland Yard, cost £llO6 and another 37 who are employed as clerks, account for £13,366.