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regulations and duties, drill, musketry, physical training, riot drill, life saving, first aid, local and general knowledge. Overseas officers are also taught Cantonese and recruit constables are taught some English. Recruits for the Marine Police are given special instruc- tion in seamanship, signalling and Port regulations. Training for inspectors, non-commissioned officers and constables was re- organized during the year, and is now co-ordinated by Colony Headquarters. In the course of their probationary period of service inspectors attend the Police Training School one day each month for lectures, as well as for two weeks' continuation training in the second and third years of their service. Constables with less than 4 years' service attend for two days each month at a small training centre in the Districts. Two weeks' continuation training at the Police Training School takes place at about the 18th month and 30th month of their service. Refresher courses, also of two weeks' duration, are held for men in the 6th to 10th year service group.
A number of courses were held during the year for Instructors, Court Inspectors, non-commissioned officers, Traffic Branch per- sonnel, civilian clerks and CID personnel. For some years Cadet Courses have been an avenue of promotion for non-commissioned officers and constables to the rank of sub-inspector. Officers who are selected for these courses after severe preliminary tests must have reached the same general educational standard as that re- quired by inspectors who enter direct. Seventy officers have already won promotion from these courses.
The Third Course on the Social and Psychological Background of Crime was held at the University of Hong Kong in December. It was attended by twenty five police officers and some prison and probation officers. This course has now become an established feature of training. Attachments to the Police Training Contingent for internal security training are regarded as complementary to Police Training School courses. A probationary sub-inspector normally goes to the Police Training Contingent in his 13th month and a constable in his 30th month. Ten gazetted officers and inspectors attended courses of instruction in the United Kingdom, including one local gazetted officer who is spending an academic year at Cambridge University.
English is the official language of the Hong Kong Government Service. For this reason, and because of the increasing number of