At that time, the British police had the highest status, better treatment and guns; Second, the Indian police have guns; The lowest is that the China police only have wooden sticks.
1845 In March, Charles May, the former superintendent of the London Police Force, arrived in Hong Kong to manage this colonial security force and became the first police chief. Based on the system of the Irish Police Force, he established a team of 1, 7 1, built police stations (later renamed police stations) in Central, Aberdeen and remote Stanley, and tried to recruit better police officers (later renamed police officers). In the early days, the scope of work was very extensive. In addition to public security, it is also responsible for fire control, population and entry and exit registration, and issuing permits.
1862 After Britain acquired Kowloon Peninsula, the total population of Hong Kong soared to120,000. The authorities immediately reorganized the police force, implemented strict discipline, hired retired soldiers from the local infantry regiment in Mumbai to join the service, and comprehensively increased the salary of the police to improve morale and work performance. In the1870s, the police force was innovated and operated effectively. The police force eliminated corrupt and incompetent elements, hired more China people, and recruited some robust Scots from Edinburgh Police Force to serve in Hong Kong. 1893, 33-year-old Francis Henry May took charge of the police force. He established a police academy, and the regulations stipulate that every newly recruited policeman must receive training in the school.
With the development of the situation, the police set up the Criminal Investigation Department in 1960s+0920s and the Emergency Unit in 1960s+091930s to deal with serious crimes and minor disturbances. At that time, the police reserve team and the special police team were also established. During World War I, many foreign policemen left Hong Kong to join the army. During this period, the government called on civilians to join the police force, and 352 people were sworn in as special police officers to form a special reserve police force, which was organized into three brigades: British, Indian, Chinese and Portuguese. They have become the strong backing of the regular troops who undertake heavy work. In order to strengthen the police force, the police force recruited people in remote Shandong Province and signed an employment contract in Ahava Port, Shandong Province. They are very strong and highly valued; The police then set up a special police force. At sea, the police stationed a special team mainly composed of Belarusians on ships sailing near the coast to set up coastal defense.
In the early days, the police force faced serious public security problems such as robbery, gambling, kidnapping and piracy, and the police force needed to recruit police from all over the British Empire. 1920, English letters are added before the chapter number of the Hong Kong police to identify the area where the police come from: A stands for European (mainly British); B stands for Indians recruited from India (mainly Sikhs in Punjab); C stands for Cantonese speakers recruited locally; D stands for Shandong people recruited from Weihai, Shandong Province (that is, Hong Kong Lu police); Later, E was added to represent Belarus from Russia. The police in different districts wear different police hats. European police use helmets with spikes on their heads (later changed to flat-topped hats); Indian police traditionally cover their heads with cloth; China police used a conical bamboo hat (later changed to a flat-topped hat). Police uniforms are dark green in summer (later changed to light green khaki) and dark blue tweed in winter. The communication between police officers depends on playing the silver flute. So at that time, there was a very popular jingle in Hong Kong, which vividly described the image of the police:
ABCD, big head and green clothes. Blow BB if you can't catch the thief. Note: "Play BB if you can't catch the thief" means that you can't stop playing the silver flute if you can't catch the thief. After World War II, the police force was reorganized, and a large number of domestic and foreign veterans joined the police force. 1946, Mai Tao Jing became the police chief. He tried to increase the salaries of police at all levels from the British Hong Kong government and improve their working conditions. At that time, the new police headquarters in arsenal street was under construction, and thousands of people applied to join the police force, many of whom were retired foreign soldiers or veterans of other colonial police forces. Later, the police set up police posts at the border. Forty years later, people still call these police posts "Mai Jingtao Church".
In addition, 1948 established a police training school, which improved the police's law enforcement and paramilitary action capabilities. 1956 101October1October10, after the riot, the police set up a police training detachment in 1958 to maintain public order in Hong Kong and provide permanent services for the police. Commissioner Xue Jifu changed the rank structure of the police to combat corruption. The most basic change is that a large number of young non-constitutional personnel have stepped onto the new rank of police chief and regained the direct control of operational work and post deployment from the senior police chief. In addition, after a comprehensive review, wages have also increased generally.
After the war, the police force also began to recruit female police officers for logistical support, and the first batch of female police officers graduated on 195 1 [5]. The Police Reserve and the Special Police were merged into the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force on 1959, and the immigration affairs were handed over to the Immigration Department on 196 1. From 65438 to 0967, Hong Kong leftists were inspired by the Cultural Revolution and launched the June 7th Riot, which lasted for half a year. The police have repeatedly prepared to disperse and search for demonstrators. 1968 adapted for police tactical unit. 1969, Queen Elizabeth II awarded the Hong Kong Police Force and Auxiliary Police the title of "Royal" in recognition of the police's successful suppression of the June 7th riots. The police force was renamed the Royal Hong Kong Police Force (RHKP) and became one of the five police forces with royal titles in the Commonwealth. Princess Alexandra served as honorary director of the regular police force and the auxiliary police force.
The Hong Kong police from 1950 to 1960, like other Hong Kong and British government departments, were once hotbeds of corruption. At that time, not only some policemen engaged in sporadic corruption, but also a considerable number of policemen and police officers colluded with the underworld, especially the plainclothes detective department, and established an underground order (underworld) to "protect prostitution and gambling". The government set up many departments to fight corruption, including the anti-corruption department under the police force, but failed to eradicate corruption. Finally, in 1974, the Hong Kong Government set up the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), which is independent of the police force, to combat corruption in the government and the police force. 1977 internal dissatisfaction with the investigation method of ICAO triggered an incident in which the police stormed the headquarters of ICAO. Finally, the governor announced an amnesty, and minor corruption crimes committed before 1977 were not investigated, and the conflict between the police and the people was quelled. Afterwards, the police accepted the suggestion of the commission of inquiry and set up a police officers' association to improve the internal communication between the police management and the police force, and to enhance the treatment and welfare of police officers. The police force began to improve the relationship between the police and the people in the 1960s and 1970s. The Complaints Against Police Office was established in 1973, and the Youth Police Call, a youth organization under the Police Public Relations Branch, was established in 1974. With the return of Hong Kong, the police force gradually localized in the 1960s+0980s, and the first China police chief Li Junxia took up his new post in the 1960s+0980s. On 1995, the police set up a field patrol detachment to take over the border security work of the British troops stationed in Hong Kong, while the former political department responsible for monitoring sensitive intelligence and reverse osmosis was dissolved on 1995, and the internal security work such as VIP protection and counter-terrorism was handed over to different departments under the operation department.
Today, the establishment of the police force is extremely large, with about 30,000 regular staff, about 5,000 auxiliary staff and about 5,000 backstage and civilian staff. It is a brigade of about 40,000 people. At present, the police force is responsible for local land and seaport security, traffic law enforcement and patrolling the closed border area with Chinese mainland. In addition, the police are also responsible for processing applications for societies, lion dances, firearms licences and assembly activities.