central police station hong kong
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Selling jails to pay off debt
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In the past people who couldn’t pay money that they owed were often sent to prison. This happened throughout a long period of Hong Kong’s hi...
Monday, 10 December 2007
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A selection of pictures of Central Police Station and the Magistracy today. centralpolicestationhongkong.blogspot.com
Prison robbed
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The colourful history of Victoria Prison contains many interesting incidents and in 1855 it was reported that the prison itself was robbed. ...
Fatal cells
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The cells in use in Hong Kong’s prison in 1856 were obviously hell holes. An historian wrote: “The long tale of Police and Prison misgovernm...
Jockey Club opens exhibition on Central Police Station
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10 December 2007 Fulfilling its promise to stage a comprehensive, six-month public consultation exercise on its HK$1.8 billion plan to conse...
New website on Central Police Station project
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club has introduced an interesting new website describing the thinking on the Central Police Station project and inviti...
Language confusion
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In the 1960s there were numerous police officers who had been recruited from the northern province of Shandong. As their form of Chinese was...
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