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CLASS XIV.—POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

1898-99. Salaries. Other Charges. Total. Vote 68. —Police Department ... £ 92,331 £ 21,308 £ 113,639 M 69.—Miscellaneous Services 5,980 5,980 TOTAL OF CLASS XIV. 92,331 !7,288 119,619 item.| POLICE DEPARTMENT. '8-99. 1898-99. .. Total number of officers ... ... 590 VOTE No. 68. Salaries — Commissioner 3 Clerks : 1 at £250, 1 at £235,1 at £104 ; Cadet, £40 .. 6 Inspectors, 1st Class, at £400 1 Inspector, 3rd Class, at £300 2 Sergeants-Major at 10s. 6d. per day 22 Sergeants, 1st Class, at 9s. 6d. per day ... 22 Sergeants, 2nd Class, at 9s. per day 14 Sergeants, 3rd Class, at 8s. 6d. per day ... 120 Constables, 1st Class, at 8s. per day ... 114 Constables, 2nd Class, at 7s, 6d. per day 214 Constables, 3rd Class, at 7s. per day ... 50 additional Constables, 3rd Class, at 7s. per day 5 Detectives, 1st Class, at 13s. 6d. per day... 5 Detectives, 2nd Class, at 12s. per day ... 3 JDetectives, 3rd Class, at 10s. 6d. per day 3 Detectives, 4th Class, at 9s. 6d. per day... Native Constables 15 ; District Constables Extra Pay (Long Service) ... . ... Extra Pay to 15 Constables doing plain-clothes duty, and 10 District and Assistant Clerks, at Is. per day Female Searchers • 4 Matrons'at £100 ... .. Constable Chatham Islands (and Clerk Resident Magistrate's Court, and Clerk Post Office) , 4 Constables acting as Magazine Keepers: 3 at £5, 1 at £10 Contribution to Salaries of Inspectors under Explosives Act, 2 at £50 Difference in pay—4 Sub-inspectors in lieu of 4 Firstclass Sergeants (5 months) ... Abolition of classes and adoption of increment system in lieu thereof (5 months) ... 4 Surgeons (1 at each centre), £100 each (5 months)... £ 525 629 2,400 300 383 3,814 3,614 2,172 17,520 15,604 27,338 6,387 1,232 1,095 575 520 400 686 5,250 456 150 400 38 25 100 97 479 167 92,356 25 Less contributions from other Departments 92,331