Edinburgh Universities. The Criminal Records office has been improved and reorganised, and in the Crime Statistical office a new system of recording serious crime by means of the Hollerith Machine has been adopted. Great strides have also been made during the year in the Communications Branch, and there is now a complete radio telephony com- munication network covering the whole of Hong Kong and Kowloon, the harbour, the harbour approaches and the New Territories with electrical stand-by equipment for the whole system. The Branch has its own workshop and does its own maintenance and installation.
Crime
The figures for serious crime dropped from 11,008 cases to 9,329 cases. There was
a slight decrease in robberies of all kinds, from 227 to 205. Burglaries and housebreaking cases also decreased from 927 to 570. There were 4,434 prosecutions for serious offences as against 5,233 in 1948. 114,328 persons were prosecuted for miscellaneous minor offences compared with 98,150 in 1948. 11,824 persons were deported or expelled from the Colony representing an increase of 5,017 on the previous year. Great credit is due to the Police Force for thus reducing the crime of the Colony in spite of the increasing difficulties with which they have had to contend.
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