ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
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Tuesday, April 22, 1975
DUKE TO SEE POLICE CADET SCHOOL
Source Of Good Calibre, Highly-Motivated Recruits
The Duke of Edinburgh will tour the Royal Hong Kong Police Cadet School in Fanling on the morning of May 5, where he will see about 300
youths undergoing training for future service on behalf of the people of
Hong Kong.
The Duke will spend about half an hour touring the school, before continuing onwards to complete further engagements in the New Territories.
He will board a helicopter from HMS Tamar, arriving 10 minutes later at the Fanling Sports Ground, and then proceeding by car to the school.
The school is temporarily based at a former Army camp in Fanling.
It will eventually be located at a permanent site, with accommodation for up to 1,200 cadets, at Shuen Wan, near the Plover Cove reservoir.
When the school officially came into existence in September 1973,
the first intake of cadets totalled 150. Its aim is to provide a source
of good calibre and highly-motivated recruits who will enter at their choice the Royal Hong Kong Police Force at constable level, or other disciplined services of the Government, when they graduate.
A complementary aim is to make available secondary, vocational,
and character training, and to increase the mental capacity and physical well-
being of recruits aged between 15 and a half and 17 - so as to prepare them
for adult responsibilities in the community.
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