CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 121

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to be done, all that is required is a patrol or sentryman.

There are already fifty guards in the Police Force. By a re-

arrangement of their duties their number need be increased by

nineteen only in order to fill the thirty six posts from which

fortyone Indian Police will be withdrawn g

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nineteen more.

10.

Reductions of fifty one constables, one lance sergeant,

and the substitution of one sergeant for one sergeant major

in the Police Training school in the Cantonese contingent are

recommended.

11. The Northern Chinese contingent should be reduced by

eighteen constables.

12. In the clerical and interpreter staff there is little

that can be done. One post of interpreter ( Class IV) and one

of telephone clerk Class IV) should be abolished, as should

also the two posts of Indian teacher and Chinese teacher at

the Police Training School. The Commissioners are satisfied

that there would be greater efficiency, in addition to economy

if the services of the European Assistant Storekeep er were

dispensed with; the post being filled by a locally recruited

Portuguese.

13.

Miscellaneous reductions recommended are the abolition

of one post of Chinese motor mechanic, two boatmen and

thirteen coolies.

14. The Commissioners considered the question of handing

over to the military certain of the frontier stations. They

are of the opinion that it would not be practicable to do so.