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(g) Recruiting. It is unfortunately true that Bahrainis do not show any great
interest in Police duties and the result is that in order to maintain the Bahrain
State Police Force at anything like a reasonable level, a great number of
foreigners have to be enlisted. Most of these have already come to Bahrain to
seek work in the oil-fields, and they look upon employment in the State Police
Force as a second best choice. Until the standard of pay and conditions of
service are materially improved, it is unlikely that we shall have a sufficiency of
high-grade recruits. The majority of recruits at present have poor physique
and are below average mentally, since the prospects of promotion are not such
as to attract men of higher calibre.
(h) Training. In 1956 the internal security disturbances prevented adequate
organised training. There were not a sufficient number of Officers and N.C.O’s
available to staff a proper Training School and the only training of this type
undertaken during the year was a course for potential officer cadets. 18 of
these were brought up to the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector by the end of
1956. 460 men fired musketry courses during the season. 80 per cent, of these
obtained between 50 and 79 points out of the possible 100. 12 per cent, of the
men obtained 80 points or more while only 8 per cent, of the men obtained less
than half marks.
BUILDINGS
(1) New buildings begun :
Three Barrack Blocks
Jida Prison
Suq al Khamis Police Station
(2) New buildings completed :
Traffic Office
M.T. Garage
Suq al Khamis Police Station
Five bungalows for officers in Fort Garden
Temporary Dining Shelter
(3) Alterations to existing structure :
Exterior perimeter wall round Fort
Sundry Guard Rooms
Partition in Tower
Extension to Arms Holding Store
TRANSPORT
Vehicles on charge of Force at the beginning and end of the year :
\si Jan, 1956 3\si Dec. 1956
Armoured Cars 12 12
3-Ton Lorries 4 4
Pick-Ups, Land Rover .. 7 14
Land Rover, 4-whecl drive 6 9
Motor Cycles 15 17
Black Maria 1

Criminal Investigation
1. On March 24th, 1956, Mr. C. W. Wright, Chief Superintendent of Police was appointed
Officer in charge of the C.I.D., which had not existed within the organisation of the State
Police prior to 1956. There was no Criminal Record Office or Fingerprint Bureau. No
facilities existed for practical and technical investigation of crime or for the collecting and
co-ordinating Public Security information.
2. In April, 1956, the organising of the Criminal Investigation Department was com­
menced and during the first week of the following month the first steps had been taken when a
Criminal Records Office and Fingerprint Bureau came into being. At this time it was found
that a number of record cards and fingerprint forms were held and which had been recorded
between 1948 and 1952 but the continuation of these records ceased when the member of the
Force responsible for this duty died. After inspection of these records it was decided that for
various reasons they were unsuitable for permanent records and as the fingerprint forms were
generally unsatisfactory for classification purposes, they could not be included in the permanent
main collection. By the end of the year the Criminal Record Office held a total of 240 record
cards of persons convicted of criminal offences and each card contained full particulars of the
offender, photographs and offences for which convicted.