DISCHARGED PRISONERS, DEPORTEES AND VAGRANTS.
33. Table IV gives the number dealt with by the Records Office during the year 1931.
POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL.
34. During the year the following number of recruits were passed out of the School, European Police 17, Indian 58, Cantonese 19, Weihaiwei 30, Indian Prison Guards Indian 10, Special Guards Indian 12, District Watchmen 38, Seamen 21.
35. Eleven promotion examinations were held in 1931.
36. Special courses were given to five Chinese probationary detectives. Seventy-six "D" contingent anti-piracy guards were given "refresher" courses. Forty members of the Police Reserve were trained and passed out in the knowledge of Police duties, and twelve commenced a "refresher" course. Seventeen sergeants and constables of the "E" (Russian) contingent underwent a course of drill, eighteen qualified in a course of English colloquial, and eight continued the course in 1932. Ten underwent a course in the Shantung dialect.
37. Forty-four European, 294 Indian, 241 Cantonese and 50 Weihaiwei Police officers were trained in First Aid work.
SUMMARY OF CRIME FOR 1931.
38. The total number of cases reported to the Police during the year 1931 was 22,728 as against 24,931 in 1930, being a decrease of 2,203 or 8.8%. The average for the last five years is 22,570.
39. There were 5,284 serious cases in 1931 as against 5,681 in 1930, a decrease of 397 or 7.5%. There was a decrease of 56 cases in House Breaking, 2 Burglaries and 228 Larcenies. Murder showed a decrease of four cases. Robberies increased by twenty-three cases, viz. twenty cases in Hong Kong, four in Kowloon and one decrease in the New Territories. The number of robberies for 1931 was thirty-five cases in Hong Kong, thirty-seven in Kowloon and seven in the New Territories, a total of seventy-nine cases as against fifty-six cases in 1930.
40. There were 17,444 minor cases in 1931 as against 19,250 in 1930, a decrease of 1,806 cases or 9.3%. The decrease is chiefly under the following headings—Hawking, Opium and Forestry Offences.
Details are given in Table V.