The Shanghai Municipal Council has been informed by Mayor Chen Kung-po of the Shanghai Municipal Government of their appointment, of Mr. C. C. Pan as police commissioner of the special police force. Mr. J. B. Clissold has been recommended to the Shanghai Municipal Government by the Council for the post of deputy commissioner, according to an official communique issued by the Council ves terday. The names of other personnel to be nominated by the Council will be announced at a later date.
Mr. Pan, the new commissioner, is 40, and a Cantonese and has been an auditor for a number of years. At the outbreak of the' Sino on Auzust 13, a the Maintenance A graduate Hwa University he wes for ten years a member of the SMP. Special police.
Before being appointed to his present post Mr. Pan has been chief of the fourth department of ti Special Service Headquarters, He is chairman of the Readjustment Committee of the Chinese Ratepayers' Association, Vice-Chairman of the Readjustment Committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce here and a committeeman of the Central Reserve Bank. He went to Japan in 1940, to study the police adminis ration there and has had some experience in police work.
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