HC Deb 19 November 1908 vol 196 cc1364-7
MR. HAZLETON (Galway, N.)

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state the number of the extra police in County Galway and the amount charged for them against the county council; the number transferred from other counties and what counties they have been transferred from, as well as the number sent from the depot in Dublin; what is the legal quota allowed for the county and when if was filled up: whether any of the cost of the men required to fill it has been charged to the comity council; and whether any expenses for extra police were incurred by the county council be ore the quota was filled up.

(Answered by Mr. Cherry.) The extra force in County Galway consists of one head constable and 345 sergeants and constables, and they are charged for at the following rates, viz.: Head constables £43 6s. per man per annum; sergeants and constables, £34 9s. 3d. per man per annum. The amount payable and due by the county council for extra police in respect of the year ended 30th September. 1908 is £8,055 10s. 9d. When the county

Head Constables. Sergeants and Constables.
From Reserve at Depot 1 57
From County of Limerick — 10
From County of Kerry — 10
From County of Kildare — 5
From County of Wexford — 4
From County of Kilkenny — 1
From County of Wicklow — 5
1 92

By warrants issued subsequently that additional police establishment was in-

Head Constables. Sergeants and Constables.
From County of Antrim — 15
From County of Armagh — 5
From County of Cork, East Riding — 10
From County of Cork, West Riding — 9
From County of Donegal — 13
From County of Down — 5
From County of Dublin — 10
From County of Kerry — 23
From County of Kilkenny — 29
From County of Louth — 2
From County of Londonderry — 5
From County of Mayo — 16
From County of Monaghan — 3
From County of Queen's — 7
From County of Tipperary, South Riding — 1
From County of Tyrone — 12
From County of Waterford — 8
From County of Wexford — 5
From County of Wicklow — 8
From County of From Depot (Recruits) — 67
— 253
Already in County 1 92
Grand Total 1 345

The free quota of the county is 616 sergeants and constables, and has been

was proclaimed in August 1907 the following detachments, which were then serving in it, became, by virtue of the proclamation and warrant under 6 Will. IV., c. 13, s. 13, an additional police establishment under that Act, viz.—

creased by permanent transfers at various times, as follows—

practically full since the redistribution of 1906. County councils are never charged for men required to fill deficiencies in the free force, any claims which are made being for men in excess of that force.