Job title
Zaptiye Nezaret Mumeyyizligi
Group of job titles: Police
1 official held the job title Zaptiye Nezaret Mumeyyizligi. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1868/69 (AH 1285). One monthly salary is recorded, 3,500 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, İzmit.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1285, 1 year with an entry
- 1868/69
- Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
- 3,500 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Police
No source read describes Zaptiye Nezaret Mumeyyizligi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| İzmit | İzmit province | 1 | 1 | 1868/69 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hasan Edip Efendi | 1868/69 | 1 | 3,500 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Zaptiye Nezaret Mumeyyizligi
- 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)