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Police & Public Security.

end a sprinkling of Sards, Iraqis, Swahili end
Sudanese.
Two years ago it -was almost impossible to obtain

local men as recruits for the Police, now when it
is announced that men axe being enlisted, fifty or
sixty applicants attend the Port every morning.

Several causes have. contributed to this changed
feeling towards serving in the Police; owing to the

general depression many men are out of work, diving
is no longer a lucrative profession and local Arabs
who did not like to serve with Indians are willing

to serve with their own countrymen, Once the ice
was broken by a few men enlisting, the new recruits
advertised the Police snn encouraged* friends and
relations to join. A. large proportion of the new

men are divers but as far as oossible only men with
small debts are enlisted; they contribute Is 5/-

per month from their pay which is Is 25/- p.m. to
their nakhudas towards paying off their debts and
becoming free men.

Owing to the number of applicants it has been
possible to raise the standard of height and physique
and most of the new recruits are physically superior

to the old men. In my opinion the best type of men
ere those of mixed Arab African extraction, they

have more intelligence than the pure .African and are
tougher then the local Arab or Behrani.
It was found when the force was reorganised that
it suffered severely from a lack of capable N.C.Os

and almost all those who did exist were Persians.
IThen the Indian Superintendent of Itolice completed his