CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945 — Page 47

SECRET

HONG KONG

CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES

POLICE

10/8/44.

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1.

During the period of military administration the

Commissioner of Police should be responsible for the administration

of the Police and 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.

2. In the first instance all uniformed ranks should be liable

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

functions. Otherwise, generally speaking, the Police Department

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

Apart from the recognised crime preventive and detective

duties of the Police Department immediate steps should be taken by

it to obtain control of all firearms, and to suppress trafficking in

drugs and the smoking of opium.

3.

4. 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 and Indo-Chine.

There should be full realisation that

many of the problems of present day police work cannot be treated

parochially.

5. All legislation of a penal nature should be reviewed with

a view to the repeal of any clauses providing for exemption on the

ground of race.

6.

Subject to the requirements of security the possibility should be examined of partial substitution of Asiatic for European

officers in the Inspector grade.

7. In the rank and file the practicability of increasing the

Northern Chinese contingent as the expense of the Indian contingent

should be examined.