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-creases to the Chinese Barrack and Station Sergeants in the

Water Police which have been recommended by Captain Lyons.

6.

In order to house these additional Police

I recommend that another storey be added to the Central Police

Station. This will give accommodation for 54 additional Asiatic

Police besides providing by a re-arrangement of rooms increased

store and office accommodation both of which are much needed

owing to the large increase in numbers of the Force since the

acquisition of the New Territory, and the addition of an

Assistant Superintendent of Police for Victoria who has at

present no office.

The Barracks are at present so overcrowded

that some 25 Chinese Constables are housed in a matshed in the

Compound of the Station. This is a very unsatisfactory arrange-

ment. The additional storey will enable these men to be brought

within the building and will also afford eccommodation for

those of the extra Police (26) who will be allocated to the

Central District. Room can be found in the Eastern and Western

Districts of the City for the additional men allocated to them,

while in the Kowloon Peninsula some additional accommodation

can be provided at small cost at Yaumati and Hunghom.

7.

The cost of an additional storey to the

Central Police Station is estimated at $28,000 while $500

will be required to accommodate some 50 of the Police who

must vacate portion of the Barracks during the alteration.

A

I have to ask your authority to incur this

expenditure together with the sum necessary to defray the cost

of increase of Police and of salaries shewn in the schedule.

8.

Finally in order to make the Police Service

generally

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