Job title
Polis Cavusu
Group of job titles: Police
Stored spellings: Polis cavusu
1 official held the job title Polis Cavusu. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1881/82 (AH 1299). One monthly salary is recorded, 350 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1299, 1 year with an entry
- 1881/82
- Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
- 350 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Police
No source read describes Polis Cavusu by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Officials of the police (polis), which kept order in towns. A police organisation founded in 1845 was soon absorbed by the police command (Zaptiye Müşirliği) of 1846, and from 1881 a police force was set up permanently across the empire.
Requirements for entry
- from 1889 a police course taught candidates some law besides reading and writing
- a police school opened in Salonika in 1907, and others across the empire after 1909
History
From 1879 the Ministry of Police (Zaptiye Nezareti) dealt only with police work. In 1909 the ministry was abolished, and police work passed to the Directorate of Public Security (Emniyet-i Umumiye Müdüriyeti) under the Ministry of the Interior.
Sources
- Özcan, Abdülkadir (2013). Zaptiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 44, 128-130. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 128-130. Used for: summary, requirements for entry, history.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 1 | 1881/82 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmet Muhtar Efendi | 1881/82 | 1 | 350 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Polis Cavusu
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)