NCJ Number
78122
Date Published
1978
Length
104 pages
Annotation
This report of the United Kingdom's Committee of Inquiry on the Police examines current police pay scales and offers recommendations for revisions.
Abstract
The representative bodies which gave evidence before the committee were generally agreed that 1960, the last time an independent body examined police pay scales, was a convenient starting point for a review of police pay. Following a review of the history of police pay from 1960 to the present, current pay scales are examined for all ranks from police constable to chief constable in provincial forces and from police constable to commissioner in the metropolitan and London forces. Changes in police duties and responsibilities since 1960 are also examined. The continuation of national rates of pay throughout the United Kingdom is recommended, with supplementary pay, such as rent allowances, varying according to the requirements of each locality. It is further recommended that pay scales for the federated and superintending ranks be updated on September 1, 1979 and in subsequent years in accordance with changes in the index of average earnings in the previous 12 months. A new negotiating body, which is proposed in another report of the commmittee, would propose variations to the updating process according to changes either in the police service or in pay movements in the economy as a whole. The information and data appended include current pay scales, the history of police pay, crime statistics, traffic statistics, legislation since 1960, and recommended pay scales.