With a roster of 6,587 officers and men, the police force of the Special Municipality of Shanghai is believed io be second largest in the Far Fast, being exceeded in. size only by that of the police in Tokyo, the "Tairiku Shimpo" said yesterday.
Included in the Shanghai force are 67 college and university graduates, 184 secondary- school graduates and 5,102 who attended primary school, according to the newspaper. Three hundred are now ing training at the Municipality's police training depot.
All officers and men will soon be armed with either pistols or rifles as soon as the necessary equipment can be procured, the newspaper said.
Maintaining 11 stations and more than 60 substations, the Municipality Police comprises administrative, judicial and sanitary branches, in addition to a detective force.
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