1202 ARTICLE 4.
in addition to the detective patrolmen hereinbefore provided for, and sub-
ject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth; twenty-four (24) turnkeys;
twenty-five (25) signal and telephone operators; eight (8) station-house
clerks, and such number of clerks for duty at police headquarters as may
in the judgment of the said Commissioner be necessary. The Police Com-
missioner shall appoint no patrolmen in excess of eleven hundred and fifty
(1,150) prior to the first day of January, 1924.
The members of the police force shall receive the following salaries,
payable every two weeks. The chief inspector shall receive four thousand
dollars ($4,000) per annum; and the other three inspectors, thirty-five
hundred dollars ($3,500) each per annum; the captain assigned to have
charge of the detective office shall receive sixty dollars ($60) per week,
and each other captain shall receive fifty dollars ($50) per week; the lieu-
tenant assigned to have charge of the Bureau of Identification shall receive
forty-seven dollars ($47) per week, and all other lieutenants and lieu-
tenant detectives shall receive forty-three dollars ($43) per week; each
sergeant and sergeant detective, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents ($36.50)
per week; each turnkey, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ($32.50) per
week; each patrolman, including detective patrolmen, shall receive twenty-
seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) per week during the first year of
his service, thirty dollars ($30) during the second year and thirty-two
dollars and fifty cents ($32.50) per week thereafter; each station-house
clerk shall receive thirty-two dollars and fifty cents per week; and each
clerk not otherwise provided for in this section shall receive thirty-two
dollars and fifty cents ($32.50) per week; and each signal and telephone
operator shall receive twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) per
week. In addition to the salaries herein provided for, each member of
the Police Department, except the inspectors of ploice, shall be entitled
to additional compensation after serving five years to the amount of two
and one-half per cent. (2 1/2%) of the salary of his grade or position;
after serving ten years, five per cent. (5%) of the salary of his grade or
position; after fifteen years, seven and one-half per cent. (7 1/2%) of the
salary of his grade or position; after twenty years, ten per cent. (10%)
of the salary of his grade or position; after twenty-five years, twelve and
one-half per cent. (12 1/2%) of the salary of his grade or position; after
thirty years, fifteen per cent. (15%) of the salary of his grade or position.
All patrolmen during their first and second years' service shall be known
and regarded as patrolmen on probation and shall not be entitled to
receive advancement in salary herein provided, unless their services dur-
ing said probationarv period have been satisfactory to the said Police
Commissioner, and unless they are certified to said Commissioner by the
Police Physicians as physically qualified to continue to discharge the du-
ties of a patrolman, and if their services during said probationary period
have not been satisfactory, or if they are not so certified by the Police
Physicians, any such patrolman shall, in the discretion of the Commis-
sioner, cease to be a member of the force.
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