CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945 — Page 49

SECRET

HONG KONG

CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES

PRISONS

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17/8/44.

1.

During the period of military administration the

Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the

Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner

of Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days.

2.

Barly consideration should be given to the adoption

of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to’ overcrowd the prisons. This camp, 1f created, should be on the

Mainland.

5.

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Colonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.

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Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for

This will entail the creation of

as many prisoners as possible.

a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified

Chinese candidates might be found.

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5.

non-European Prison Officers should be increased.

In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of

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