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Police and Public Security,

1. Folic*? strength. fho total strength of the

Police force at the end of the year was 172. M.C.Gs
and nen, including two sections who are not yet
fully trained. iVith this number cf nen it is
possible to provide for all outside duties and

guards and to retain aoout fifty men in training
at the Fort in Pananah who v/ould be available in
case of emergency. The force is divided into
1o sections excluding the bund ana the headquarters

s^aff. All the police, with the exception of
three Indian instructors, are locally enlisted men
but of the following nationalities:-
Arabs 97
Persians 13
Shia Bahama 10
»>anu-iitted
slaves 3,
the remainder include Swahilis, .Sudanese, Iraqis,
Yemenis, Aurds, Lislabaris and Baluchis.

2. The late Superintendent /f Police. curing
the summer, the Police Superintendent, died very
suddenly. ibis officer had served in the Police
since the force was originally organised by the
iJananah Municipality, He was a Shia 3ahrani, a

very loyal, intelligent and reliable officer with
a particular aptitude for investigation work.
By his death the government lost a most valuable
servant. niter he died a certain faction of the

Mananah Shia comnunity endeavoured, in a most
unsuitable manner, to secure the appointment of
Haji Sulman's son as Superintendent of Police.
There is in Bahrain a certain l’eeliag that such
pests as this are hereditary. The young man in