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Tuesday, November 27, 1973
CALL TO KATFONG AND KUK LEADERS TO HELP IN POLICE RECRUITMENT DRIVE
The Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr. D.C. Bray, has urged all
kaifong and rural leaders to help in the current police recruitment
drive.
The appeal is contained in a letter to Kaifong chairmen,
chairmen of District Committees, Area Committees, the Heung Yee Kuk,
Rural Committees and Chambers of Commerce in the New Territories.
Mr. Bray said that in order to walk the streets free of worry
about crime, "we must have more policemen",
"As a result of a community-wide effort," he added, "there
are now 37 recruiting centres located in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New
Territories."
All these centres are on business seven days a week and, depending
on the specific needs of areas, operate well into the evening. "It is
the biggest recruitment effort we have ever had."
Referring to police life, Mr. Bray noted that it was an exciting
one for young men and women of the right sort.
He pointed out that the salary for police constables had recently
been increased to about $1,000 a month and secondary school graduates
could get even more.
Although Hong Kong now probably had the best paid police force
in Asia, the Secretary for Home Affairs said: "We are, however, faced with
a very high problem: we have to recruit some 1,000 police constables."
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