17.
Rank
LENGTH OF SERVICE AND COMPOSITION
20 & over
10-20
3 - 10
Under 3
Total
Gazetted Officers
20
23
23
66
Overseas Insps.
23
57
168
58
306
Local Insps.
11
52
100
46
215
Cantonese
107
963
2,502
1,418
4,990
Northern Chinese
55
122
330
34
541
Pakistani
18
27
109
154
Portuguese
20
20
Women Police
44
49
93
234
1,264 3,276 1,611
6,385
CASUALTIES
18. There was a total of 171 casualties during the year compared with 202 in 1956/57. The various causes were:
Overseas
G.O.S
Insps.
Local Insps.
N.C.O.s
Total
& P.C.s
Deaths
1
8
9
Desertions
Dismissals
1
53
54
Retirements
Resignations
6
a w
3
4
7
61
67
Invalidings
13
13
Termination of Service Transfers
1
3
7
11
7
1
2
10
18
5
148
171
HEALTH
19. The number of days lost during the year due to sickness in the Force totalled 25,913 of which 2,322 were accounted for by Gazetted Officers and Inspectors and 23,591 by the Rank and File. Of this total, 8,805 days sick leave were granted to a relatively small number of sufferers from tuberculosis. The annual X-Ray survey of police and civilian staff, during which 6,846
which 6,846 examinations were made, detected seventy five active cases of this disease during the year compared with seventy two cases last year.
DISCIPLINE
20. There was a considerable decline in the number of disciplinary offences reported, the total being 1,807 compared with 2,434 for the
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