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FINGER PRINT DEPARTMENT.
12. A summary of work executed in this Department for the year 1933 is as follows :
Number
of Slips
received.
Number
of traces.
Number
filed.
Number of Returned
banishees.
Number of
Hawkers
Slips
received.
Number of
Hawkers
traced.
1933
24,395
6,478
20,103
371 *
7,562
3,000
1932
18,249
4,516 12,669
271
Increase ...
6,146
1,962
7.434
100
Total number of records on file-157,181.
*During the year, twenty returned banishees were discharged owing to the banishment order having been made on the wrong form of warrant. These persons were later banished on the correct warrant.
PHOTOGRAPHIC SUB-DEPARTMENT.
13. The total number of photographs taken of scenes of serious crime and accidents throughout the year was twenty- six.
The total number of copies of photograph issued was 2,579, made up as follows:-
For Criminal Investigation Department. For Police and Supreme Courts
For Special Branch
For Colonial Secretary's Office
PASSPORT OFFICE.
729
761
1,043
46
14. During the year, seventy-eight persons of various nationalities other than Chinese, Indians and Japanese were put before the Courts for the following offences:--
Vagrancy Stowaways
Passports
38
14
26
The number of foreign destitutes dealt with during the year was sixty-nine.