Revised Statement of the Conditions of Appointment
of Police Probationers.
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1.
With the view of supplying the Police Service of
Hongkong, Probationerships have been established, the holders of
which will be required to devote themselves for a certain time
after their arrival in the Colony to acquiring a knowledge of
Chinese and Hindustani and of Police work and drill.
2. The Probationers will be selected by competitive
examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners.
The examination for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of June or July, in those years in which vacancies have occurred, simultaneously with the examine-
tion for the Indian Police Force and for the Police Services of
Ceylon and the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, in the same subjects and the same papers. Candidates may com- pete for the Indian and for one or all of the Colonial services
at the same time.
Applications for admission to the combined examina-
tion should be addressed to the Secretary, Judicial and Public
Department, India Office, in the manner laid down in the Regula-
tions for admission to the Indian Police Force issued by that
Department. These regulations also contain full information as
to the subjects for examination.
Applications for admission to the examination of
candidates for the Police Forces of the Colonies and Federated
Malay States only should be addressed to the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office. They must reach that Department not later than the lat of May.
3.
Candidates must be above 19 and under 21 years of
age on the 1st day of June in the year in which the examination
is held. They must be unmarried, and if they marry before
reaching the East they will forfeit their appointments.
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