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HONG KONG
10/8/44.
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
POLICE
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
me as urea.
2. In the first instance all uniformed ranks should be liable
for duty in the regular police or for any of the above-mentioned
functions. 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.
and
4. Liaison should be established with the Canton and Macao
Police, and, if practicable, with Chungking and Shanghai, especially with the Police administratione 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.
77. In the rank and file the practicability of increasing the Northern Chinese contingent as the expense of the Indian contingent
should be examined.