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regulations, drill, musketry, physical training, self-defence, 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. Probationary inspectors recruited overseas receive instruction in Cantonese at the Govern- ment Language School. Constables are taught elementary English at the training school. Thereafter during their service both inspectors and constables return at intervals for further training throughout their service. The training school also provides traffic and CID courses, NCO training courses and instructors' courses for its own staff. In addition many hundreds of officers each year undergo training in internal security work at the Police Training Contingent in the New Territories.
The seventh 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 narcotics and crime and students included senior police, army and prison officers and a number of social welfare workers. Each year a number of officers take courses at the police colleges at Bramshill and Tullialin Castle, at the Metropolitan Police Training School, Hendon or at other training centres in Britain. During the year six overseas officers and five local officers attended such courses.
The Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force supports and reinforces the regular police in emergencies of all kinds. Its strength of 1,674 men is made up of 24 gazetted officers, 95 junior officers and 1,555 non-commissioned officers and police constables. It is commanded by the Commissioner of Police, lassisted by the Commandant, who is an Auxiliary Assistant Commissioner.
The Auxiliary Police Force has been purely voluntary since 1961 and has established itself as a very active and viable unit.
When mobilized the auxiliaries are completely integrated with the regular force and each of the nine auxiliary land divisions operates as part of its parent division. Auxiliary emergency units operate in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon districts in support of their regular colleagues, and marine auxiliaries assist in manning craft of the marine division. The duties of the force are varied. The helicopter observer squadron, a sub-unit of marine division, has no regular counterpart and the duties and training of this unit are carried out by auxiliary police personnel themselves, with the assistance of the