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Mr. Sproat
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what are the average weekly earnings of a police constable in Scotland; and what are the average weekly earnings of all ranks from constable to chief inspector at the latest available date;(2) by what percentage the average policeman's weekly earnings are higher or lower than the average weekly earnings of other non-manual workers in Scotland at the latest available date.
Mr. Harry Ewing
The latest information available relates to March 1976 and derives from a Survey of Police Earnings undertaken by the Police Council for the United Kingdom. While the survey was conducted on a United Kingdom basis the Scottish sample produced the figures for gross earnings set out below:
| £ | |
| Uniformed constable | 69·38 |
| Detective constable | 85·94 |
| Uniformed sergeant | 85·59 |
| Detective sergeant | 102·25 |
| Uniformed inspector | 98·64 |
| Detective inspector | 103·41 |
| Uniformed chief inspector | 116·98 |
| Detective chief inspector | 121·21 |