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LAW, ORDER AND RECORDS
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 sixth 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 Future Role of the Police in Hong Kong. The students included senior police, army and prison officers and a number of social welfare workers.
Each year a number of officers go to the United Kingdom on courses of instruction at the police colleges at Bramshill and Tulliallan Castle, at the Metropolitan Training School, Hendon, or at other training centres. Thirteen overseas officers and six local officers attended one or other of these courses in 1963. Special courses of various kinds are organized locally from time to time.
PRISONS
There are eight institutions under the control of the Commis- sioner of Prisons. They are Stanley Prison, Victoria Prison, Lai Chi Kok Prison for women, Chi Ma Wan Prison, Tai Lam Prison for convicted drug addicts, Stanley Training Centre, Cape Collinson Training Centre and the Staff Training School. The first three are security prisons and the remainder open institutions.
All institutions have been encouraged to adopt a 'do it yourself' policy and as a result, prison labour is being used on a wide variety of construction and maintenance work. New married and single quarters for warders at Chi Ma Wan Prison have been completed. Pavilions for the Prisons Department sports association have been built entirely by prison labour at Stanley, Chi Ma Wan and Tai Lam Prisons. The water supply scheme and the approach road to the new Tong Fuk Prison on Lantau Island have been completed by contract, and the main building work is expected to start in the summer of 1964. The building of the Staff Training School, which is used for basic training for all officers and warders and for annual refresher courses for all uniformed staff, is now an approved project.
Some 5,696 prisoners have passed through the rehabilitation programme for convicted drug addicts at Tai Lam Prison and 57 per cent have not been reconvicted for any offence. The two