The ''Police Review" contains a full report of a meetin# held at the Home Office at the beginning of the month, when, after hearing a statement by the Home Secretary, the following reductions in police allowances—amounting approximately to £1,717,000 a year—were agreed to by the representatives of the police en the understanding that all the items, with the exception of No. 3, be reviewed on March 1, 1923:—Boot allowance to be reduced from 2s. to 1s. per week, saving £133,000; a levy of 2} per cent. to be made on the standard rate of pay, saving £300,000; reduction of strength and administrative economies, saving £740,000; income tax repayment on rent allowance to be abolished, clothes allowance, saving £15,000; rent allowance to be reduced by per cent. saving about £500,000.
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