It is useful as Chairman of the Commission that reported in 1879, on the organization of the Police. Acting on the Report of that Commission and on the evidence of such high authorities as Dr Legge and Sir Edmund Hornby, my predecessor had taken the important step of extensively employing Chinese in the Police Force.
It is due to Sir Arthur Kennedy to say that he had found the Hongkong Police a very indifferent force; and that he left it vastly improved. He frequently expressed the opinion that its increased efficiency was mainly to be attributed to his having carried out Mr Hayllar's recommendation of recruiting the bulk of the force with Chinese.
I therefore caused the papers on the Gaol staff to be sent to the same gentleman, with a request that he would favour the Government with his views as to the employment of Chinese turnkeys in the Prison; and I have the honour to lay his report before Your Lordship.
Mr M. Hayllar expresses the opinion that Chinese, who have earned their characters and undergone some disciplinary training in the