OLD POLICE PENSIONS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Since it has been realized that the police of the United Kingdom have been underpaid for many years, it would seem an opportune moment to call attention to the ease of the old police pensioners. As pensions are based on the wages a man may be receiving at the time of his retirement, it follows that the men who received low wages are now receiving low pen- sions. Low as these pensions were originally, they have been seriously reduced by the unprecedented fall in the purchasing- power of money. Cases have been brought to my notice in which pensioned police officers have suffered extreme hardship during the last three years, and it does not seem unreasonable to ask for these pensions to be brought nearer to their former value. Pensions are now granted to the widows of police officers and of new pensioners, but the widow of the old pen- sioner gets nothing, which seems hard on men who served their country loyally and without complaint.—I am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM T. H. TURNER,
Hon. Sec., Retired Police Officers' Association. 33 Frankfurt Road, Herne Hill, S.E. 24.
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