Job title
Polis Meclisi Riyaseti
Group of job titles: Police
2 officials held the job title Polis Meclisi Riyaseti. Its 19 annual entries run from 1882 to 1906 (AH 1300 to 1323). The median of the 19 recorded monthly salaries is 1,800 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Istanbul, with 2.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1300 to 1323, 18 years with an entry
- 1882 to 1906
- Median monthly salaryfrom 19 recorded salaries
- 1,800 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 3
Profile of the group: Police
No source read describes Polis Meclisi Riyaseti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Officials of the police (polis), which kept order in towns.1 A first police, set up in 1845 to keep order first in Galata and Beyoğlu, lost its function when the command of the zaptiye forces (Zaptiye Müşirliği) was founded on 15 February 1846 and security work was attached to it.2,3 The police was set up again, permanently, in 1881, and from then on, starting with Istanbul, efforts were made to extend it to every part of the country.4
Requirements for entry
- a police course (polis dershanesi), opened in 1889 so that candidates would know some law and not only how to read and write1,5,6
- police schools: the first opened at Salonica on 2 January 1907 under Belgian officers, the school of Istanbul on 14 July 1909, and from 1909 others in many places in Rumelia, Anatolia and the Middle East,7,1 though graduation from a police school became a condition of entry only under the regulation of 19138
History
The Ministry of Police (Zaptiye Nezareti), founded on 3 December 1879 in place of the Zaptiye Müşirliği, dealt only with police work, while the zaptiye troops were attached for a time to the war office (seraskerlik).9,10 The law of 4 August 1909 abolished the ministry and made the police a directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, the Directorate of Public Security (Emniyet-i Umumiye Müdüriyeti).11,10,1
Notes
- Özcan, Abdülkadir (2013). Zaptiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 44, 128-130, paragraph beginning ‘Zaptiye teşkilâtının ikinci’. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).
- Özcan (2013), ‘Zaptiye’, paragraphs beginning ‘Bu klasik düzen’ and ‘Zaptiye teşkilâtının ikinci’.
- Yılmaz, İbrahim (2020). Osmanlı polis teşkilatında insan kaynakları yönetimi: Selanik vilayeti örneği. Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 10 (19), 101-118, p. 102, which says it was closed a year later. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).
- Özcan (2013), ‘Zaptiye’, paragraphs beginning ‘Zaptiye teşkilâtının ikinci’ and ‘1879’da asâkir-i zabtiyye’.
- Gün, Taner (2012). II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Emniyet-i Umumiye Müdürlüğünün kuruluşu ve gelişimi (1909-1918). MA thesis, Harran University (YÖK thesis no. 326072), p. 20, which says the course was not a school. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).
- Yılmaz (2020), p. 104, which dates a course of law lessons for serving policemen in Istanbul to 1891.
- Gün (2012), pp. 7, 20.
- Yılmaz (2020), p. 104.
- Özcan (2013), ‘Zaptiye’, paragraph beginning ‘1879’da asâkir-i zabtiyye’.
- Yılmaz (2020), p. 102.
- Gün (2012), p. 18.
Each statement above ends with the number of its note, which gives the work and the page or paragraph it comes from.
Where the job was held
| Place | Officials | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 2 | |
| Beyoğlu | 1 | |
| Üsküdar | 1 |
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 2 | 14 | 1882 to 1906 |
| Beyoğlu | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 4 | 1892 to 1896 |
| Üsküdar | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 1 | 1891/92 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huseyin Husnu Efendi | 1895 to 1906 | 11 | 1,800 to 2,000 | Sliven (İslimiye) |
| Hasan Rifat | 1882 to 1896 | 8 | 1,000 to 2,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Polis Meclisi Riyaseti
- 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)