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¡CONFIDENTIAL

if civilian police employees are added);

reorganisation

of the Force, doubling the strength of CID, the

introduction of beat radios, the creation of a Police

Cadet School of 600 to improve the calibre of

entrants, the setting up of Police Neighbourhood Units,

and wide measures of reform and innovation to improve

confidence between public and the Police. The

latter include an exceptionally successful Junior Police

Call scheme now numbering 150,000 young people. The

strength of the Auxiliary Force was increased from

3,300 to 5,000 and over 1,000 of these turn out for a

four-hour shift each day both to augment the regular

Force and increasingly to form a link between it and

the residents of each neighbourhood. On the civilian

side residents of blocks or streets are being gradually

organised into Mutual Aid Committees to help each other

and help the Police combat crime. 1800 of these have

already been formed and the number will be increased

to 2,230 in the course of 1976/77, when they will

cover about 37% of the population. They are the prime

responsibility of the Department of Home Affairs and

its staff is being steadily strengthened to give the

necessary support and guidance.

11.

This combination of measures appears

now to be holding the rise in crime, but much work

remains to be done to reduce it.

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