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Police und Public Security.

The State Police.

1. The strength of the Police at the end of

1353 was 153 including one Arab officer and eighteen
N.C.Os. At present three Indian Army U.C.Os and
one Indian Police N.C.O are attached to the Police
as instructors. All the men in the force were en­

listed in Bahrain but not all of them are of local
origin, some Persians have been enlisted as well as
Swahilis, Sudanese and manumitted slaves, I find
that the last category respond well to training and

make good policemen, I consider it wise not to
enlist only local born men. During the last two
years the feeling in Bahrain towards the Police has
altered very greatly. There is keen competition
to enlist as a police recruit and the local popula­

tion, which used to regard the police with complete
lack of interest has now developed a patriotic regard
for them.
2. The four men who were sent to India for

training with the 10th Baluch Regiment returned
aftor completing a nine months course, The experi-
ment has been very successful. • The men were first

put to the ordinary recruits’ course, then they were
given special training as instructors and finally
they were put in charge of recruits, They can now
train the police recruits by up-to-date methods and
they have the great advantage over the Indian instruc­
tors of being able to speak the language, of the men

they are teaching. Two of the four men were N.C.Os,
tjie other two young policemen were promoted to
j^ance Naiks on their return.