Police Housing
| Author | H. G. St. John |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X5803100210 |
| Published date | 01 April 1958 |
| Date | 01 April 1958 |
POLICE HOUSING 119
Amsterdam and several othertowns in Holland and they arealso
satisfactorily employed in Denmark and Germany.
In view of theresults achievedin thesecountries,one cannot help
wondering why a similar system of school crossing patrols has not
been introducedatthe less important points intowns in this country.
Police Housing
By INSPECTOR
H.
G. ST.
JOHN
Essex
County
Constabulary
THE
REGULATION
Police Regulationsstatethata policeauthority shall provide each
member of a policeforce with a house or quarters free of rent and
rates or shall payhimrentallowance. "House" is not defined. The
regulation does not stipulatethat the houseshall be owned by the
. policeauthority (county-owned) or hiredby the police authority
(county-hired), or that it shall be of any particular type or design. As
far as I know thereare no national standards laid down(although
police authorities have their own standards for their own properties),
hence policehousingcovers a widerangeof
.habitation-from
old,
poor-class dwellings withoutbathrooms, without drainage to a main
sewer, without modem comforts, to modem, Ideal Home Exhibition
pieces completewithgarage,office andlargegarden.Whetheryou
spend mostof yourservice in theformerorthe latter depends,to a
very large extent, on your choice ofForce and the luck of the draw.
THE
ADVENT
OF THE
COUNTY-OWNED
HOUSE
"A
house or quarters free of rent"has not always applied.Prior to
the first world war(intheEssexConstabulary at least) the men them-
selves paidmost oftherent.Those residing at police stations were
subjected to deductions from their pay: superintendents, inspectors,
married sergeants and constables, unmarried sergeants andconstables
at the rateof
4/
-,
3/-,
2/ -and
1/-
per weekrespectively. All ranks
residing in county buildingsother than police stations paid
3/
ld. per
week, and thoseresiding in rentedproperties paid the rent, with the
opportunity of drawing from the policeauthority anything they paid
in excessof 3/ Id.Theywere thedayswhenhousescouldberented
for afewshillings per week,andrecordsshow that a considerable
number of policemen obtained a weekly "rent aid," asitwas then
called, of three or fourshillings.
From the early recordsit canbe deducedthat priorto thefirst world
war police authorities did not own very manypolice houses;most of
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