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HONG KONG

CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES

# 2/8/44

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Second Draft

14/4/44.

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POLICE

The Police Department was a self-contained Department

charged with the prevention and detection of crime;

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equipped with the usual sub-branches e.g. special, detective,

traffic, water police etc; special units were maintained in reserve

for emergencies; it was assisted by a Police reserve and also was

responsible for the provision of Anti-Piracy guards.

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'On re-occupation the Commissioner of Police will be

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A Police a responsible, in addition to the abere, for the administration of the Prisons Departments; for the control of immigration to such extent as may be decided by Government; for the control of dangerous drugs,

which will include opium; and for civil defence measures.

In the first instance all uniformed ranks should be liable

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for duty in the regular police or any of the above-mentioned functivis

departments.

Otherwise, generally speaking, the Police Department should

be reconstituted on the same lines as in pre-war days.

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Apart from the recognised crime preventive and detective of the Police department.

bz ir duties immediate steps should be taken to obtain control of all

and the smothing of firearms, and to suppress trafficking in drugs, including opium.

4.3.

Liaison should be established with the Canton and Macao

Police, and, if practicable, with Chungking and Shanghai, and especially with the Police administrations of Malaya, the Philippines

There should be full realisation that many of the

and Indo-China.

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problems of present day police work cannot be treated parochially.

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Gertein legislation of a penal, nature exempta Chinese from

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of any Hese exemptions should, so far

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The pre-war Police included in its cadre 277 posts for

Europees officers of the inspector grade.

Subject to the

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