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3. At present obout forty men, including
two recruit sections, ore available for daily
parades. The remainder are occupied by duties

including jail guards, point duty in the bazaar,
steamer parties, aerodrome guards, detachments
at Kedd, Ifuharraq and Sakhir and guards at the

Political Agency, Police Station etc.-, a few
men are usually on leave or sick.
4. The health of the present force is
better than that of the Indians, Malaria is
the most prevalent illness, It increases dur-

ing certain seasons in spite of constant inspec­
tions of the Port and married lines to detect
breeding places of mosquitoes, It seems that

most of the men acquired the disease before they
joined the police. So far there has been a sur­
prisingly small amount of venereal disease although
the population as a whole are riddled with it.

More then fifty per cent of the men who offer
themselves as recruits fail to pass the medical
examination on account of defective eyesight.

The minimum height of a police recruit has now
been settled at 5ft. 6inches although some of
the men who were previously enlisted are consi­
derably under this height.
5. In addition to their routine duties

the police have provided numerous guards of
honour during the year for His Excellency Shaikh
Hamad and various distinguished visitors includ­

ing the Commander in Chief, East India Squadron,
and the Air Officer Commanding, Iraq, During
the 7isit of the Mediterranean Destroyer Flotilla