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he is required to undergo 14 days annual training and a minimum of 60 hours instruction.
Establishment and Strength. The establishment of the regular force is 104 gazetted officers, 745 junior officers and 7,891 non- commissioned officers and constables. These figures include the women police consisting of one gazetted officer, 14 junior officers and 377 non-commissioned officers and constables, but do not include the auxiliaries.
The pay increases awarded during 1962 and a more intensive and improved method of advertising have resulted in better recruit- ment. At the end of 1962 the difference between strength and establishment of other ranks was 714. By the end of 1963 it had been reduced to a deficit of 268 and the trend of recruiting indicated that it would be further lessened by the end of the financial year. Owing to good recruitment, there were only 34 vacancies in the ranks of chief inspector, senior inspector and inspector at the end of the year. To replace vacancies in the gazetted ranks 10 senior inspectors were promoted on trial to assistant superintendents during the year.
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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 initial training in the Police Training School at Aberdeen. The curriculum in- cludes 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. Recruits for the marine division undergo additional training in seamanship, signals and port regulations. Probationary overseas inspectors attend a course of instruction in Cantonese at the Government Language School.
At the end of their initial training all ranks are posted to units where they carry out duties under supervision, and for the re- mainder of their probationary service inspectors attend the Police Training School one day a month for lectures, and constables attend smaller district training centres two days a month for the same purpose. Inspectors and constables return to the Police