The Hong Kong Police ParamilitaryTraditions and the Reforms Adopted (Essay Sample)

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The Hong Kong Police paramilitary traditions
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Hong Kong was colonized by the British in which the colonial police forces went through three phases during the colonial era. The very first two encompassed. Locally improved plan to secure fundamental law and order. Secondly, the establishment a paramilitary force. The latter phase was adopted with the quest to regulate the hostility of the indigenous population administered by a strange power mainly by coercion through deploying the police force instead of the military. The police force was directly answerable to the head of the state executive who was the governor. The principal of policing the indigenous people by aliens was practiced. The police residential was the barracks with the stations heavily fortified. After the colonization of Hong Kong in 1841, Hong Kong Policing was established in 1844(Lawrence 211). The top positions like an inspector and above were filled with Europeans, while lower ranks like station-sergeant were the Indians. For many years, firearms were only possessed by the European leaders.
The period of 1925-1926 was characterized by the communist strike, which led to the rise of the Emergency Unit; this unit was introduced with the objective of restoring order from civil disturbances. Also, the Anti-communist squad, which later rebranded to Special Branch in 1938. Special Branch (SB) was headed by DC, who was answerable to the colonial governor directly. At a later period, the police training contingent (PTC) was formed as an anti-rioting combat training. PTC became mandatory for all the new recruits early in their career, and when needed, the PTC graduates were deployed into anti-riot squads. After a