Clanghong? No 148.
997th September 1871.
Major General Manifeild,
Lieutenant Governor.
to
The Night Honorable
The Earl of Stamberley
Alongtong Polie Force -
"pramping
Mernorial from the Community to the Secretary of State
the appointment Commission to inquire into
for
the state
of
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Pravomits, with Remartto-
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MINUTE PAPER.
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The Honghong Reamorial praying for a Commission to enquire into the state
of the Colonial Police.
The memorialists complain ! / that notwithstanding
increase both in numbers and in cost, the Hongkong Police forces is inefficient, and that this inefficiency has been officially recognized. 2/ That life and property in Hongkong have never bem 30 insecure, and that the number of crimes of Violence
alarming. 3/ That the flogging onda [disallowed by us) checked crime_i_c.
recword serious cases,
colmste
that it's disallowance increased it. 4) That chief Justice Imate proposed a combi to enquire into the condition of the Police, but that no notice has been taken of his motion. If That there have lately
(wth they mention). of undetected crine . of They enclose resolutions much to the same effect from the new- official justices of the pence. I/ They pray for a searching enquiry into the criminal history and legislation of the Cobny constitution of the Police force by
and the