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HONG KONG
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
POLICE
10/8/44.
1. During the period of military administration the Commissioner of Police should be responsible for the administration of the Police and Prisons Departments; for the control of immigration
to such extent as may be decided by Government; for the control of dangerous drugs, which will include opium; and for civil defence
measures.
2
In the first instance all uniformed ranks should be liable for duty in the regular police or for any of the above-mentioned functiona.
Otherwise, generally speaking, the Police Department should be reconstituted on the same lines as in pre-war days.
3. Apart from the recognised crime preventive and detective duties of the Police Department immediate steps should be taken by it to obtain control of all firearms, and to suppress trafficking in drugs and the smoking of opium.
4. Liaison should be established with the Canton and Macao
Police, and, if practicable, with Chungking and Shanghai, and
especially with the Police administrations of Malaya, the
Philippines and Indo-China.
There should be full realisation that
many of the problems of present day police work cannot be treated
parochially.
5. All legislation of a penal nature should be reviewed with
a view to the repeal of any clauses providing for exemption on the
ground of race.
6.
Subject to the requirements of security the possibility
should be examined of partial substitution of Asiatic for European officers in the Inspector grade.
7. In the rank and file the practicability of increasing the
Northern Chinese contingent as the expense of the Indian contingent
should be examined.