COMPARATIVE RATE OF PAY.
SHANG- HONG-
Rank.
HAI, per month. per
KONG,
month.
No. of Officers.
HONGKONG.
AT PRESENT.
PROPOSED.
Amount. No. Per month. Amount.
$
Chief Inspector,
150.00
120.00
1,440.00
1
150.00 1,800.00
Ist Class
100.00
100.00
27
4,800.00
100.00
4,800.00
2nd
85.00
80.00
"J
2,880.00
85.00
3,060.00
3rd 1st 2nd
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وو
75.00
60.00
2,880.00
4
75,00
3,600.00
""
"
Sergeant,
60.00
45.00
5,940.00
11
52.00
6,864.00
55.00
10
"
Corporals
48.00
5,760.00
3rd
50.00
>>
Constables,
45.00
40.00
88
42,240,00
78
45.00 42,120.00
Allowance to 10 P.C.
as Actg. Sergeants,
2.50
300.00
60,480.00
$ 68,004.00
T. C. DEMPSTER, Captain,
Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.
(2.)
CENTRAL POLICE BARRACKS, HONGKONG, 21st November, 1883.
SIR,
1. I have the honour to bring to your notice some points concerning the efficiency of the Hongkong Police Force, to which it seems desirable to draw early
and serious attention.
2. The European and Indian portion of the Force number nearly 300 strong, they are armed with Rifles, and it is very essential for many reasons that they should be a drilled and disciplined body capable, when required, of united action. These reasons arise partly from the nature and ordinary functions of the Hongkong Police, partly from the duties which might fall to their share during a time of
emergency.
3. In dealing with this force it would be well to dismiss all recollections of the corresponding body in England. The Hongkong Police, however, presents a close analogy to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Like them they are an armed force; like them much of their duties lie amid a passively or actively hostile population, while the Lily and Triad secret societies are organisations more widely spread than even the Fenian Brotherhood, or the band of Invincibles. The Hongkong Police are, moreover, often called on to cope with not only individual criminals, but with bodies of armed men organised for the sake of crime. A short time ago a shop in the centre of the town was attacked by a large band of armed men, and everyone acquainted with Hongkong knows how frequently the Police have been called upon to encounter armed gangs of pirates and smugglers.
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