No. 484.
BY AIR MAIL.
-35
20
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
26th August, 1935.
Sir,
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With reference to Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister's
telegram No.25 of 7th February, 1932, on the subject of
the Police establishment of this Colony, I have the honour
to request your authority for the following increases in
that establishment, for which no provision has boon made
in the 1935 Estimates:-
One European Sub-Inspector,
One Cantonese Lance Sergeant,
Two Cantonese Constables,
Twenty Indian Constables,
all of whom are required for the New Territories.
2. Crime in the Northern district of the New
Territories has increased in an alarming degree. Up to
the end of June of this year 153 crimes had occurred in
this district, as compared with 201 for the whole of 1934,
and eighty-nine in 1930; whilst outrages (murders,
manslaughters, and robberies) have numbered twenty-four
out of a total of forty-eight for the whole Colony during
the same period. To cope with this state of affairs, it
is necessary to institute at Au Tau a branch of the Criminal
Investigation Department consisting of one European Sub-
Inspector, one Cantonese Lance Sergeant and two detectives
(Constables). It is also considered essential to strengthen
by
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&C.
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