This is in re­sponse to the many state­ments be­ing made by news­pa­per colum­nists and ra­dio and tele­vi­sion show hosts that the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice is in re­ceipt of a month­ly salary of $40,000.� In the 89th re­port of the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion, which was ac­cept­ed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Ju­ly 24, 2009, the month­ly salary of the CoP was giv­en as $31,250 and that of the deputy com­mis­sion­ers as�$24,050.

It is pos­si­ble that Par­lia­ment sub­se­quent­ly ap­proved ad­di­tion­al in­creas­es in the salaries of these of­fi­cers, of which I am un­aware.

It is in­ter­est­ing to note that at that sit­ting of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Ju­ly 24, 2009, the Par­lia­ment al­so agreed to "a wage freeze" for all oth­ers who fell un­der the purview of the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion. These in­clud­ed the Pres­i­dent of the re­pub­lic, the Prime Min­is­ter, the Chief Jus­tice, Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment and oth­ers who had re­ceived sub­stan­tial in­creas­es in their salaries to­geth­er with en­hanced re­tire­ment ben­e­fits in the 80th re­port of the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion, which was ap­proved by Par­lia­ment on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2006.

May I draw to the at­ten­tion of all in­ter­est­ed read­ers the Par­lia­ment Web site ttpar­lia­ment.org/pub­li­ca­tions for fur­ther in­for­ma­tion. May I al­so draw to their at­ten­tion the con­tents of the Re­tir­ing Al­lowances (Leg­isla­tive Ser­vices) Act No 4 of 2008. The boys and them qui­et­ly fix them­selves up but are putting pub­lic ser­vants on con­tract with no pen­sion.

Ian Lam­bie???

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