Head 19.-POLICE FORCE
329
89
Approved Estimate, 1940-41.
Estimate, 1941-1942.
Head 19.-POLICE FORCE
Sub-heads:-
1 Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
2 Ammunition
3 Upkeep of arms
4 Bedding
$
3,751,651
3,102,525
40,000
55,000
(1)
5,000
4,000
7,500
7,200
(2)
5 Cleansing Materials and Washing
6 Clothing and Accoutrements..
7 Coal and Gas
8 Conveyance Allowances
9 Coolie Hire....
10 Disinfectants
500
400
140,000
145,000
65,000
60,000 (4)
14,375
17,850
3,000
2,500
(1)
3,125
2,500
11 Expenses of Auti-Piracy Guards.....
20,000
16,000
12 Emergency Expenses arising from the Sino-Japanese Conflict. 13 Grants to Villages in New Territories in aid of Village Scout
10,000
150,000 (1)
Scheme
1,200
960
14 Identification of Criminals
500
600
(5)
15 Incidental Expenses
8,750
7,000
16 Interpretation Fees
450
360
17 Light and Electric Fans
46,000
40,000
(4)
18 Maintenance of Tai O Electric Plant
1,000
800
19 Medals....
3......
1,400
1,000
(6)
20 Mess Utensils..
1,250
1,300
21 Passages for Police Officers
194.500
150,000
22 Passages for Deportees etc.
7,000
6,000
23 Passports
1,200
24 Recruiting Expenses
10,000
5,000
25 Petrol, Oil, etc., for Police Motor Vehicles...
16,250
15,000
26 Photography
7,000
8,000
27 Rations for Indian Police
73,730
145,000
28 Remand Horse Juvenile Offenders
10,000
2,400
29 Rent of Stations and Married Police Quarters
54,250
54,680
30 Repairs to Police Motor Cars and Cycles
10,000
9,000
31 Rewards
5,000
6,000
32 Safety First Campaign
1,000
1,000
33 Secret Service......
30,000
35,000
34 Small Stores
15,000
18,000
(12)
35 Special Courses of Instruction
1,500
1,000 (6)
36 Subsistence of Prisoners
7,500
8,000
(2)
37 Telegrams and long distance telephone calls
1,000
800
38 Telephones.....
1,913
2,248
(13)
39 Training of Police Cadets.
4,882
(1)
40 Transport
15,000
12,000
Total Other Charges
$29,713
997,680
Special Expenditure.
41
One hundred .38 Short Revolvers
6,000
14,400
(14)
42 Five Typewriters
4,320
2,200 (15)
43 Twelve Filing Cabinets
1,290
1,440
44 40 prs. Peerless Handcuffs
1,200
1,400
(14)
45 300 Barrack Steel Cupboards
9,600
9,600 (14)
46 Six Solo Motor Cycles
8,000
(14)
47 Three Motor Cycle Combinations
5,750 (16)
48 Four Small Motor Cars......
18,000
(17)
49 Five Motor Vans
25,000
(14)
50 One Safe.....
51 Tear Gas Equipment.....
52 One Gestetner Machine.............
53 Three sets Binoculars
54 One Adding Machine....
1,650
250
(18)
16,000
2,000
(14)
1,000
600
Ultra Violet Ray Lighting Unit...
Motor Vehicles
Total Special Expenditure
1,470
13,500
39,030
4,620,397
(19)
(19)
105,640
4,205,845
Total Police Force
(1) Considered necessary.
(2) Higher costs.
(3) Higher costs and increased personnel.
(4) More stations and quarters.
(5) More identification parades.
(6) Considered sufficient.
(7) Formerly provided under Stores Department.
(8) Higher prices and increased mileage.
(9) Higher cost of rations.
(10) Male juveniles now under Prisons Department. (11) More quarters and offices rented.
(12) Higher costs and more stations.
(13) More telephones and payment for extensions, etc.
under new automatic system.
(14 Replacements.
(15) For Water Police and out-stations.
(16) To replace two motor cycle combinations and one
solo motor cycle.
(17) To replace two motor cycle combinations and two
small cars.
(18) Additional for Kowloon City Station. (19) Non-recurrent.