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per month. Returns of criminal statistics are prepared in the Criminal Records Office monthly, quarterly and yearly.
Modus Operandi Office
122. Daily searches in the crime and method indices have resulted in positive identification being made in seventeen criminal cases. In addition assistance has been rendered in the location of missing persons and in tracing stolen property, motor cars and bicycles.
POLICE SUPERVISION
123. Since the introduction of the new Police Supervision Ordinance in 1956, supervision orders have been made in respect of 5,667 persons. During the year 3,064 persons were placed under Police Supervision.
124. The work of assisting supervisees to find employment and establish themselves in society was continued throughout the year with the aid of voluntary organizations and a fair measure of success was obtained, particularly in the case of men who had served long terms of imprisonment for major offences.
POLICE PUBLICATIONS
125. 181 Police Gazettes and Supplements were published during the year containing 2,670 items relating to such matters as wanted or missing persons, lost and stolen property, miscellaneous criminal matters and special bulletins on crime trends and criminal activities. Notices to pawnbrokers were printed daily during the year for circula- tion whilst Reward Notices, Special Notices, C.I.D. Circulars and Bulletins were also published.
THE COURTS
126. The Courts of Hong Kong consist of the Supreme Court of the Colony, two District Courts and three Magistracies. The District Courts are located at Kowloon and Hong Kong and two Judges at each Court sit, on alternate weeks, in criminal jurisdiction. The prosecutors at these courts are Crown law officers and two police Inspectors who are specially appointed by warrant under the hand of the Attorney General. There were 319 criminal cases dealt with at District Courts during the year, the principal offences being robbery, wounding, manufacture and possession of dangerous drugs, forgery, counterfeiting, larceny from the person and breaking offences. District Court Judges, who sit alone, can impose sentences of up to five years imprisonment.
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