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drill and musketry, first aid and an eight-week course in colloquial Cantonese for overseas inspectors. Recruit traffic wardens attend a six-week course covering legislation and procedures related to traffic matters.

The school provides training for junior police officers, newly promoted NCOs and specialist traffic personnel to bring them up-to-date on new legislation and to prepare them for a higher rank.

The Regional Continuation Training Scheme operates from centres in each of the four police regions. It provides supplementary training for some 3 300 constables each year during their first two years of service. In addition, a scheme of continuation training is now in effect for inspectors with less than one year's operational service.

The Detective Training Wing of the Police Training School continued to hold 12-week standard CID training courses throughout 1983 at its premises at Kai Tak. An average of 25 inspectors, 20 NCOs and 90 constables attended each of the four courses. Officers from the Customs and Excise Service and the Immigration Department also attended the standard course full time, while personnel from other departments attended selected parts of the course.

The Marine Police Training School's enhanced programme trains personnel to handle the more sophisticated vessels being acquired for the fleet. Constables, sergeants and officers receive training in seamanship, navigation, engineering and wireless telegraphy, while officers also receive advanced radar training at the Hong Kong Polytechnic, first aid training with the St John Ambulance Association, and attend ship fire fighting courses run by the Fire Services Department.

At the Police Tactical Unit in the New Territories, 1 380 officers from the rank of constable to superintendent underwent training in all aspects of internal security tactics and methods of crowd control. In addition, the unit runs refresher courses and training days for uniformed personnel from all regions.

During the year, 557 junior police officers attended full-time English language courses locally; eight local inspectorate officers attended higher education and English language courses at Lancaster University, England; 31 officers of various ranks attended professional and technical training courses overseas; and a total of 13 officers were taking diploma courses in Japanese and business studies.

Police Cadet School

The Police Cadet School celebrated its 10th anniversary during the year. Since its formation, the establishment of the school has increased from 150 to 750 cadets. Of the 2 131 cadets who have graduated from the school, 1 930 joined the police force, 35 entered the Fire Services, 64 the Customs and Excise Department and 29 the Correctional Services Department.

Organisation and Structure

Following recent reviews of the way the Uniform Branch deploys its resources and of the command structure for police districts and divisions, the Research Branch of the Management Services Wing is co-ordinating the recommendations being put into effect, and is monitoring the results.

In the third phase of the reorganisation programme which was put into effect in April 1983, all former divisions in the New Territories Region were upgraded to districts and former sub-divisions renamed divisions. Certain posts were regraded and additional supporting staff provided to enable district commanders to deal more effectively with local policing problems.