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HAND-PICKED POLICE MOTORCADE FOR ROYAL VISITORS
24 Officers Divided Into Three Teams
Twenty-four hand-picked officers of the Royal Hong Kong Police
Force will provide a motorcade escort for the Queen and the Duke of
Edinburgh during their visit to Hong Kong.
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The 24 men have been divided into three teams of eight officers
one for Hong Kong Island, one for Kowloon, and one for the New
Territories
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and each team will comprise an inspector, two sergeants,
and five constables.
Wherever the Royal visitors go, their escort will be eight traffic
policemen smartly uniformed wearing white helmets and white sleeves, and
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riding gleaming motor cycles.
The officers have been carefully selected for their important
task, the criteria being past experience. They have undergone special
training under Chief Inspector John Guy, who was an outrider during the
first visit to Hong Kong by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1959.
Practice runs have covered all the routes to be used by the
Queen and the Duke in both their separate and joint itineraries,
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