POLICE   DEPARTMENT.
 

REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1888.
 

Police Department of the City of New York, >

No.  300 MULBEKRY STREET.                      )

Hon. Hugh J. Grant, Mayor, City of Nezu York:

Sir—The Board of Police of the PoUce Department of the City of
New York, hereby respectfully submits a report of the operations and
transactions of said Department and the Police Force for the year ending
December 31, 1888.

The year 1888 was not marked by any extraordinary exertion of the
Police in the performance of its manifold duties, yet it will be found that
the labors of the year have been of as much, if not more, importance than
those of previous years, and that the labors are increasing year by year as
our city grows in wealth and population. The annual reports submitted
by this Department for the three years last past have met with so much
favor by reason of their statistical Information, that the Board of Police is
encouraged in their efforts to present to the tax-payers of the city as com¬
plete a compilation of the operations of their Police force as is possible.
 

the   police   FORCE.

The comparative strength of the Police Force, in its several grades, at
the close of the years 1880, 1885, 1886, 1887 and 1888, was as follows :

Rank.                                          i8Bo.
 

Superintendent.....

Inspectors.........

Surgeons...........

Captains...........

Sergeants..........

Detective Sergeants

Roundsmen ........

Patrolmen.........

Doormen...........
 

Totals .
 

1885. '
 

1886.
 

1887.
 

■
 

3
 

4
 

iB
 

17
 

18
 

34
 

34
 

36
 

153
 

144
 

149
 

40
 

40
 

40
 

'77
 

168
 

163
 

2,396
 

2.731
 

2,741
 

77
 

7S
 

80
 

2,898
 

3,2.6
 

3.232
 

2.853
78
 

Pursuant to law and the Civil Service regulations there were serving
terms of probation at the close of the year one Surgeon, two Doormen