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in the public works programme. This new accommodation and other improvements form part of a scheme eventually to house all junior officers of the force. At the end of November a new block providing 80 new flats for married NCO's and constables was opened at Tin Kwong Road, Kowloon. It is the first block in this group of married quarters, which will house 716 officers and their families when completed. Including this latest block, 2,170 married NCO's and constables are housed in police quarters.
Recruitment and Training. Overseas probationary inspectors are recruited in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth; other probationary inspectors and constables are recruited locally. On enlistment all ranks are given a six-month course of training in the Police Training School at Aberdeen. The curriculum includes lectures on public relations, civics, the principles of law and legal procedures, court procedure, police and Government regulations, drill, musketry, physical training, riot drill, life saving and first aid. The course is designed not only to train the men in police duties but also to broaden their general outlook and fit them for responsibility. Overseas officers are taught the first stages of Cantonese and locally recruited men and women are taught English. Recruits for the marine division undergo additional training in seamanship, signals and port regulations.
At the end of their six months' initial training all ranks are posted to units where they carry out duties under supervision. For the remainder of their probationary service inspectors attend the Police Training School one day a month for lectures, while constables attend small district training centres two days a month for the same purpose. Inspectors and constables return to the Police Training School for continuation training courses for two weeks in their second and third years of service, and refresher courses are held for those in the sixth to tenth years of service. The fifth annual study course on the social and psychological background of crime was held at the University of Hong Kong in December. The theme of the course was The Place of the Police in Modern Society. The students included senior police, army and prison officers and a number of social welfare workers. Several stimulating and profitable discussions took place during the course.
Each year a number of officers go to the United Kingdom for courses at the police colleges at Bramshill and Tulliallan Castle,