LENGTH OF SERVICE
44. The length of service of members of the Force at the end of the year is shown by categories in the following table:
Years of Service
Officers
Senior Officers (Overseas)
20 & Over 10-20
3-10
Under 3
Total
17
97
2
116
Senior Officers (Local)
Junior Officers (Overseas)...
3
14
17
...
9
101
168
130
408
Junior Officers
36
100
217
167
520
65
312
387
297
1,061
Years of Service
Rank & File
20 & Over
10-20
3-10
Under 3
Total
Cantonese
864
3,246
2,310
2,540
8,960
Northern Chinese
111
292
8
411
Pakistani
15
81
43
139
Portuguese
14
14
Women Police
38
214
172
424
1,004
3,657
2,575
2,712
9,948
CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
45. The civilian establishment at the end of the year was 1,753 with a strength of 1,693. There were 567 civilians in unskilled grades, 276 in General Clerical Service posts and 193 in Police Interpreter posts. Specialist posts included those of Training Officers, Welfare Officers, Director of Music, Force Armourer and Ballistics Officer.
TRAINING FOR CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
46. Nine three week induction courses were held for new entrants for the Police Interpreter grade and a total of seventy-two officers attended. The courses aimed to provide a grounding in Police Inter- preter duties and an elementary knowledge of law.
47. Ten Police Interpreters attended a course on Criminal Law given by the Department of Extra Mural Studies of the University of Hong Kong.
48. Thirty-two members of the clerical staff and eighteen members of the unskilled grades attended English classes organized by the Government Training Division of the Colonial Secretariat.
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