Ripon MuseumsThe Yorkshire Law and Order Museums |
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Ripon MuseumsThe Yorkshire Law and Order Museums |
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Samuel Winn led the party of Ripon Police Officers who were sent to arrest the infamous Sinkler Brothers at Stonebeck, near Pateley Bridge, in September, 1831.
When he had been appointed in 1830, as the first professional and uniformed Police Officer for the Liberty of Ripon, he was paid a salary of £30 per annum. This was raised to £30 per quarter in 1832. One wonders what he had done to merit such a large increase in salary as well as what happened later when this was reduced to £25 per quarter in 1838 - possibly having to cut costs?
(Click on the 1838 salary order image to view a larger version)
He continued to supervise the unpaid constables in the Liberty, from his home in Middle Street, following the County Police Act of 1839 which empowered, but did not compel, the Justices in Quarter Sessions to maintain a paid police force in every county as, like elsewhere in Yorkshire, the ratepayers were unwilling to abandon the voluntary constabulary.
Having become bankrupt in 1842, he was replaced by a Thomas Ellington Collinson, the post having been advertised at "£100 per annum, but shall provide his own horse".
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