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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 7th. March, 1913.
I regret to have to address you again upon the
subject of a further increase in the Police Force for which provisi-
-on has not been made on the Estimates.
2.
Last Autumn I enquired of the Captain Superintendent of Police whether an increase in the Police Force in
Victoria and Kowloon was rendered necessary by the growth of
population or otherwise, and he informed me that he could not justify an application for a further increase on the round of growth of population or extension of roads. An examination by my-
-self of the beat books and duty books satisfied me that the beats and other duties were sufficiently manned. I did not therefore pursue the subject before closing the Estimates for 1913.
3.
Recently, however, I discovered that while the
number of detectives in Victoria is sufficient for their ordinary
duties an insufficient reserve exists to provide for emergency or
extraordinary work, with the result that men have to be withdrawn
from their ordinary duties to provide for special enquiries,
execution of search warrants, searching of steamers, etc. One result is that many of the detectives in charge of the sections into which the City is divided and which were extended in accordance with the recommendation contained in Sir F. Lugard's Confidential Despatch of the 7th. of February, 1911, are frequently withdrawn temporarily.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..
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