Cheung Chau Police Station [1913- ]

Given grade 2 rating by AMO. Building still used as a police station Cheung Chau Police Station (長洲警署) was built in 1913 to replace an earlier police station built in 1899 on Tai Sun Street (大新街) in Cheung Chau, which was previously an Imperial Chinese tax collection station. The decision to build another police station was taken after the murder of three Indian constables and the looting of the police station by a gang of pirates on 19 August 1912. During the period of Japanese Occupation (1941-1945), the police station was closed and the policing of the Island was carried out by the Japanese army with its military headquarters in Cheung Chau Middle School. In January 1947, police officers returned to the island and re-established a permanent police presence, with a strength of one sub-divisional inspector and 12 constables. (AMO)