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LAW, ORDER AND RECORDS

Women Police are employed in all divisions to deal with women and children requiring police assistance. They work in close co- operation with the Social Welfare Department and the staff of the Juvenile Courts. They are also employed on special guard and patrol duties and assist in report rooms. Women constables are attached to the traffic office as a special unit to control metered parking spaces in the city and for traffic control duty at busy junctions and thoroughfares at peak periods.

Visitors. During the year the police took part in the arrange- ments for a number of distinguished visitors to the Colony. Among these were the Crown Prince and Princess of Japan, the President of Indonesia and Madame Sukarno, the President of Mexico, the Attorney General of the United States of America, Mr Robert Kennedy, Prince Souvanna Phouma and the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kwan-yew. Three Vietnamese police officers visited the Hong Kong Police during the year to study dog-handling and airport control. One Hong Kong Police officer visited Japan to study handwriting identification technique.

The Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force supports and reinforces the regular police in emergencies of all kinds. Its establishment of 1,976 men is made up of 35 gazetted officers, 124 inspectorate officers and 1,817 non-commissioned officers and police constables. It is commanded by the Commissioner of Police, assisted by the Commandant, who is an auxiliary assistant commissioner. It was created in 1957 by a merger of the Hong Kong Police Reserve and the Special Constabulary. In August 1961 compulsory service was abandoned in Hong Kong, but recruitment since then has been sufficient to maintain the strength of the unit at just over 1,400.

When mobilized the auxiliaries are completely integrated with the regular force and each of the eight auxiliary land divisions operates as part of its parent regular division. Auxiliary emergency units operate on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Districts in sup- port of their regular colleagues, and marine auxiliaries help to man craft of the regular marine division. The duties of the force are varied. The helicopter observer squadron, a sub-unit of marine division, has no regular counterpart and the duties and training of this unit are carried out by Auxiliary Police personnel with the assistance of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force. The auxiliaries