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Finding NoPOL/4/5/3/3 page 33
TitleRewards and commendations, offences and punishment book, entry for Thomas Emerson [part of POL/4/5/3/3]
Date1872-86
DescriptionName and rank: Sergeant Thomas Emerson
Date joined: 9 Feb 1872
Age: 24 years
Warrant number: 1489


Crimes and punishment:
11 Jul 1877 for neglecting the duties assigned to him on Thursday the 28th ult., fined 2 days pay by the Watch Committee
2 Feb 1881 disobedience of orders in not going to Messrs Wilsons ship owners to engage a berth for a London Detective Inspector for Gothenberg [sic] owing to which neglect he failed to obtain information that the steamer was detained through ice impeding her navigation at Gothenberg [sic] and which information if obtained at the time the order was given might have been telegraphed to London and thus have saved the Detective Inspector an unnecessary journey from London to Hull, reduced from Detective officer to Merit Class Constable by the Chief Constable

Rewards and commendations:
8 Feb 1873 advanced from the 4th Class to 3rd Class @ 24 shillings per week
22 Feb 1873 advanced from the 3rd Class to 2nd Class @ 25 shillings per week
12 Feb 1876 advanced from the 2nd Class to 3rd Class @ 27 shillings per week
24 Nov 1877 promoted to Detective Sergeant @ 32 shillings per week
5 Feb 1881 reduced by the Chief Constable to Merit Class Constable
12 Feb 1881 reinstated by the Chief Constable as Detective Sergeant @ 33 shillings per week
11 Jul 1883 highly commended by the Watch Committee and awarded the sum of £5 for zeal and energy displayed by him in conjunction with Detective Sergeant Grasby in the arrest of William Johnson and William Daniels for robbery the former being sentenced to 15 months imprisonment and 2 years supervision and the latter to 7 years penal servitude and 5 years supervision
17 Mar 1886 promoted to 1st Class Sergeant @ 33 shillings

Notes:
See [page] No 15

Includes: dates of offences; type of crime committed; punishment and the age of offender; resignations and deaths; rewards (advancement) and commendations
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