CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 397

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insufficient in times of peace to men their beats properly either day night, would in times of war require material strengthening for

civil

and order in town and in

the mere

functions of kreping peare assisting the fire brigade. To utilize the Polive Force for parpores of defence is impossible without manifest danger

and disadvantage.

On the other hand he reising of a strong Chinese Military Torre in the Colony would

exable the Government to abolish the hybrid present Military Police

at

17 Hongkonga

( present combines mili-

military

which

and

crvil characteristics and is inn

that a

efficient in both respects. Experinace in European countries has shown

Police Force with a military constitution is never effective for selection properes or prevention of

mit

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