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-creases to the Chinese Barrack and Station Sergeants in the
Water Police which have been recommended by Captain Lyons.
6.
In order to house these additional Police
I recommend that another storey be added to the Central Police
Station. This will give accommodation for 54 additional Asiatic
Police besides providing by a re-arrangement of rooms increased
store and office accommodation both of which are much needed
owing to the large increase in numbers of the Force since the
acquisition of the New Territory, and the addition of an
Assistant Superintendent of Police for Victoria who has at
present no office.
The Barracks are at present so overcrowded
that some 25 Chinese Constables are housed in a matshed in the
Compound of the Station. This is a very unsatisfactory arrange-
ment. The additional storey will enable these men to be brought
within the building and will also afford eccommodation for
those of the extra Police (26) who will be allocated to the
Central District. Room can be found in the Eastern and Western
Districts of the City for the additional men allocated to them,
while in the Kowloon Peninsula some additional accommodation
can be provided at small cost at Yaumati and Hunghom.
7.
The cost of an additional storey to the
Central Police Station is estimated at $28,000 while $500
will be required to accommodate some 50 of the Police who
must vacate portion of the Barracks during the alteration.
A
I have to ask your authority to incur this
expenditure together with the sum necessary to defray the cost
of increase of Police and of salaries shewn in the schedule.
8.
Finally in order to make the Police Service
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