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in the
energy
which has been effected and morale of the Police. I
do not
remember seeing in any colony
men so
CH
any colony a body of
ineffective in proportion to its
as the
CH
number nor so corrupt generally a Police force which I found here. Its authorized strength then as now, without counting the Naval Dockyard Police,
consisted of 89 Europeans, 377
chiefly Bombay Sepoys,
Indians
total in round numbers of 600-
a
and 132 Chinese,
or a
of
force which, so far
as
numbers
could
go,
in
England deal with six times the
population of this Island.
19.
It must however be remembered
that in England almost
every
one
is
inclined to assist the Policeman. Here
the contrary
of the town it
and is
a man
in the Chinese Quarter
was
even now
possible till lately,
so, for
occasionally so,
to be knocked down at noon
and robbed
without
any
witness's presence or intervention in his aid, or
the least disposition to give information
subsequently to the Police.
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What is still
more
embarrassing
is the facility with which the Chinese submit to extortion within certain limits, thereby holding out irresistible temptation to members of the Police,
when
so
disposed, to levy a species of Black
on those who infringe
well
the law as on
those who are
guilty of no offence
really
In this
each
way