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entails an increase in the total number of the contingent.
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On the first two tours five years should be served, there-
after leave could be granted every four years. The Commis si oners.
do not consider that this will involve any hardship.
commissioned police officers have the privilege of retiring
on pension at the age of forty-five years, ten years before their colleagues in other branches of the Government Service 8. The proportion of Europeans to Asiatics in the Hong Kong Police is high. But after going fully into the matter the
Commissioners are unable to recommend any alteration in this
respect. Owing to the geographical situation of the Colony and a land frontier also easy to cross, the chances of escape for a criminal are very much greater than they are in a city
at home or in other colonies. A fairer comparison would be
with Shanghai though the difficulties there are far greate i
which has an European contingent double the size of that cr
Hong Kong
9. In the Indian contingent it is recommended that when
the present two Assistant Superintendents retire, the two posts should be abolished without any increase being made in
the number of inspectors and sub-inspectors. Other reduction advocated are the substitution of a sergeant major for a sub- inspector at the Police Training School, the abolition of twe
posts of sergeant, eleven lance sergeants, twenty one constabl and the replacement of forty-one constables by thirty-six
guards. The difference between a constable and a guard is that the former is trained in police work, the latter, who is
usually an ex soldier, is not. The pay of the two is the sam but the guards are engaged on a temporary basis, and consequently have no passage, pension or leave privileges. In some of the outlying districts there is little police work
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