LENGTH OF SERVICE
48. The length of service of various categories of members of the Force at the end of the year is shown in the following table:
Officers
Senior Officers (Overseas) Senior Officers (Local) Junior Officers (Overseas) Junior Officers (Local)
Rank and File
Cantonese
Northern Chinese
Pakistani
Portuguese
Women Police
Years of Service
20 & Over
10-20
3-10
Under 3 Total
13
75
4
1
93
2
6
8
10
110
154
102
376
14
95
168
134
411
39
286
326
237
888
Years of Service
20 & Over 10-20
4-10
Under 4
Total
206
2,968
2,080
2,043
7,297
45
374
41
460
26
92
3
42
163
15
15
36
94
234
364
277
3,485
2,218
2,319
8,299
HOUSING AND BUILDINGS
49. Senior Officers are mainly housed in non-departmental quarters but there are 25 departmental quarters available for holders of certain duty posts. There are 370 departmental quarters available for 435 married junior officers. Priority in the allocation of married quarters for junior officers is given to overseas officers.
50. Of the 238 local junior officers who are married 158 are housed in departmental quarters.
51. Details of new buildings and quarters are given at paragraph 4 and Appendix 8 respectively.
52. Police projects in various stages of planning or construction at the end of the year are listed in Appendix 9.
CIVILIAN STAFF
53. The civilian establishment is 1,511 consisting mainly of clerical officers and allied grades, police interpreters and labourers.
54. Once more the Force had difficulty in recruiting police interpreters but by the end of the year most of the vacancies had been filled.
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