Police Funeral, for a Cop who was killed 102 years ago

I see that Constable Charles Painter, a Vancouver policeman who died in the line of duty 102 years ago, has been honoured with a special police funeral, a new headstone in Mountain View Cemetery, and a ceremony attended by many uniformed police. This obviously has cost thousands of dollars - all those policemen must have been paid for at least half a shift, because I doubt they attended on their own time. 

As a citizen, transit rider, and taxpayer, I would like to know what this affair cost, and to hear TransLink's explanation of why I should have to pay for it. I worked for 30 years on the docks of Metro Vancouver, during which several of my colleagues were killed on the job, and nobody except our union paid for their modest funeral expenses. Longshoremen, loggers, fishermen, and taxi drivers all do more dangerous work than police, and when we are killed on duty we don't get public funerals attended by our fellow workers on full pay. Especially, we don't have funerals provided at public expense for those killed 100 years ago.