Appendix I.
Report on the Police School, 1904.
POLICE SCHOOL,
HONGKONG, 9th January, 1905.
the
SIR.I have the honour to forward the report on the Police School during year
ended December 31st last."
2. I returned, after leave since May, 1902, and resumed charge on February 25th. This was the only change in the School Staff.
3. The usual examinations for certificates of exemption from compulsory school attendance were held in the holiday month; in February, eight European Police Constables presented themselves and all passed; in March, thirteen India Police Constables came up, and ten satisfied; in August, five European Police Constables offered themselves, and two passed. At a supplementary examination, in July, one European Police Constable offered himself, and got through. All the men who passed subsequently received certificates of exemption.
4. The total attendances in the year were 5,151; the school was open 101 times, which gives an exact average of 51. The highest attendance on any one day was on September 8th, when 101 men were in school. The average attend- ance would have been higher, but, owing to the building operations now in progress at the Central Station, a number of Indian and Chinese Constables who would, ordinarily, be in residence there, and thus available for school, are living elsewhere, and are, in consequence, excused compulsory attendance at school.
5. During the year, 415 men have been in school, viz.:-European Police Constables 35, Indian Police Constables 133, Chinese Police Constables 177, and Gaol Staff (Guards and Assistant Warders) 70. Two garden boys also attended.
I have, etc,
T. K. DEALY, M.A. (London),
Master in charge.
F. J. BADELY, Esq.,
Captain Superintendant of Police.
Appendix II,
Report on the Policing of the New Territory (North of the Kowloon Hills), 1904.
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The year 1904 started with a somewhat serious increase in crimes of violence in the New Territory, necessitating a temporary increase in the Police for the Ping Shan and Sheung Shui Districts. The crimes were of the usual type, i.e., armed robberies, and in one case the robbery was accompanied by murder. noticeable feature of these crimes was that they were committed well within British Territory and not only on the border. This state of affairs only lasted, however, until the Chinese New Year, when matters resumed their normal aspect. The extra Police were dispensed with at the end of March. From that time on until September, nothing of importance took place. In that month there were three armed robberies, two in one night on the island of Ping Chau in Mirs Bay, which is naturally somewhat exposed, and one off Tai Long, Sai Kung district. In the latter one man was shot in the leg and had to be removed to Hospital where he was successfully treated. With the exception of a few robberies on a small scale in the exposed Luk Yeuk district there was no serious crime up to the end of the year, and the cold weather did not bring the usual number of robberies in its train.
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