LANSING POLICE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL WEB SITE
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LANSING POLICE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL WEB SITE
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POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION--PBA Included in the 1910 annual budget of $16,722.44 were yearly salaries-chief at $1,200 and each patrolman at $720-with no benefits. LPD officers organized a “Relief Fund Association” to assist officers and their families during illness or death. Each payday a tin can was set on the lockers of the patrolmen and each would throw in a minimum of fifty cents. This organization is now known as the Lansing Police Benevolent Association (PBA). Officers would remain on the job, some walking beats, into their late 60’s and 70’s. In 1917, ordinance #96 was implemented for the “compensation for retired and incapacitated police and firemen…. Any person who has been a policeman/fireman for a period of 25 years, shall upon written application, be placed on the list of retired… All police and firemen placed on the retired list shall receive a sum equal to one-half their annual salary, provided such sum does not exceed $50 a month.” Those who became incapacitated were required to submit the proper papers required by the city and the board, and have physical exams by two doctors. |
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