AnnualReport-1933

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FINGER PRINT DEPARTMENT.

12. A summary of work executed in this Department for the year 1933 is as follows:-

Year. Number of
Hawkers
traced. 1933 24,395 6,478 20,103 371 * 1932 18,249 4,516 12,669 271 Increase 6,146 1,962 7,434 100

Total number of records on file-157,181.

*During the year, twenty returned banishees were discharged owing to the banishment order having been made on the wrong form of warrant. These persons were later banished on the correct warrant.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SUB-DEPARTMENT.

13. The total number of photographs taken of scenes of serious crime and accidents throughout the year was twenty-six.

The total number of copies of photograph issued was 2,579, made up as follows:-

For Criminal Investigation Department. 729 For Police and Supreme Courts 761 For Special Branch 1,043 For Colonial Secretary's Office 46

PASSPORT OFFICE.

14. During the year, seventy-eight persons of various nationalities other than Chinese, Indians and Japanese were put before the Courts for the following offences:-

Vagrancy Stowaways Passports 38 14 26

The number of foreign destitutes dealt with during the year was sixty-nine.