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Clanghong? No 148.

997th September 1871.

Major General Manifeild,

Lieutenant Governor.

to

The Night Honorable

The Earl of Stamberley

Alongtong Polie Force -

"pramping

Mernorial from the Community to the Secretary of State

the appointment Commission to inquire into

for

the state

of

of a

Pravomits, with Remartto-

3 Inclemmes

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For mende

MINUTE PAPER.

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The Honghong Reamorial praying for a Commission to enquire into the state

of the Colonial Police.

The memorialists complain ! / that notwithstanding

increase both in numbers and in cost, the Hongkong Police forces is inefficient, and that this inefficiency has been officially recognized. 2/ That life and property in Hongkong have never bem 30 insecure, and that the number of crimes of Violence

alarming. 3/ That the flogging onda [disallowed by us) checked crime_i_c.

recword serious cases,

colmste

that it's disallowance increased it. 4) That chief Justice Imate proposed a combi to enquire into the condition of the Police, but that no notice has been taken of his motion. If That there have lately

(wth they mention). of undetected crine . of They enclose resolutions much to the same effect from the new- official justices of the pence. I/ They pray for a searching enquiry into the criminal history and legislation of the Cobny constitution of the Police force by

and the