3-074-637 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in Scotland-Yard: pension-day for the retired policemen, 1883. 'The scale of pensions, retiring allowances, and gratuities, to men who have served well, and who are incapacitated by age or infirmity, and the benefits of the Superannuation Fund, to which every member of the Police force subscribes 2½ per cent of his pay, [is] noticed, in connection with our Sketch. A man who has served above five years, but less than fifteen, may, if he retires for the cause stated, obtain a "gratuity" to the amount of one month's pay for every year that he has served. A man who has completed fifteen years' service, and who is obliged to retire on account of health, gets a pension for life, calculated at the rate of one fiftieth part of each year's pay multiplied by the number of years he has served; but after twenty years' service, two fiftieths of the yearly pay will be reckoned in computing his pension; and after twenty-eight years' service, his pension will be two thirds of his pay. Accidental bodily injuries, especially those received in the execution of duty, are treated with special compensation. If a married constable is killed on duty, a pension of £15 yearly is given to the widow, and a yearly allowance for each child...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.