Contingent.
Commissioner of Police & Deputy Commissioner of Police.
Superintendents.
Superintendents. Assistant
Probationers.
2
K 16
This number includes police employed by other Departments, but excludes the Chinese Water Police (See Section 17) and also the following administrative and clerical staff and messengers and coolies.
Accountant.
Asst. Storekeepers
Accountants.
Storekeeper &
Assistant
S. C. & A. S.
Secretary.
(Sp. Branch).
Stenographers.
Police
Clerks & Shroffs.
Telephone Clerks.
Interpreters.
Messengers and
Coolies.
6 6 1 1 2 3 1 1 3 41 8 84 156The following table shows enlistments and casualties during the year.
Enlistments. Deaths. Resignation through sickness. Resignation through expiry of term of service or otherwise. Dismissals and Desertions. Total Casualties. A European 13 1 3 CO 6 1 1 1 1 B Indian 55 4 13 13 12 42 C Cantonese 108 4 20 33 D Wei Hai Wei 1 3 2 E Russian 1 2 1 5 Cantonese S. I. 12 1 1 284. The establishment provided in Estimates is distributed into the following main heads:-
(i) Leave and recruits;
(ii) Anti-Piracy guards on ships;
(iii) Hong Kong headquarters staff;
(iv) Kowloon and N.T.N. headquarters staff;
(v) C.I.D. headquarters staff;
(vi) C.I.D. staff in districts;
(vii) Regular duty staff rural districts;
(viii) Regular duty staff urban districts.
After providing the men required for items (i) to (vii), the strength remaining is used for item (viii). This means in effect that any deficiencies fall upon the regular duty police doing beat and section duty in the urban areas. The establishment provided for 1939 was 120 Asiatic police (Indian, Cantonese and Wei Hai Wei) short of the number required to police all beats fully. This deficiency was such that in normal times the reduction in efficiency of police work was a risk which could be accepted. The abnormal conditions prevailing in recent years in conjunction with the outbreak of war with Germany made it essential