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Kwun Tong Police Station [????- ]

Numbered Police Stations

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A great summary of the old numbered police stations from Richard.

Kennedy Town Police Station (2nd location) [1900-1969]

Date Place completed: 
1900-10-01
Date Place demolished: 
c.1969-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Moddsey found this description of the Police Station:

1900 PWD Annual Report

A new Police Station was built on a site selected above the Cattle Depot on the road leading to Pokfulam and completed on 1 October 1900.

The previous Police Station in Kennedy Town (see http://gwulo.com/node/17695) had been converted for use as a hospital.

Kennedy Town Police Station / Infectious Diseases Hospital, Victoria Road [????- ]

The position is approximate. It is marked on a 1924 map, but I'm not sure who ran it or what type of illnesses it treated. It may have been connected with the Tung Wah Plague Hospital, which was on the adjacent plot of land.

No. 7 Police Station (2nd generation) [1902-????]

Date Place completed: 
1902-09-01

Completion date from point 44 in the PWD Annual report for 1902. The report also notes that the new building was built on the site of the earlier No 7. Police Station.

Previous place(s) at this location: 

Western Police Station [????- ]

There are several different buildings in the compound. Does anyone know the dates they were completed?

Former #1 Police Station, Leighton Road [1853-????]

Date Place completed: 
1853-07-01

Demolision date is uncertain but according to a Wiki entry in Chinese it should be around the 1930's.  The same Wiki entry also have a list of the early police stations.

There is a photo of this police station at this blog.  

Best Regards,

T

Former Sai Kung Police Station [1901-????]

Date Place completed: 
1901-01-01

placement is total guesswork

Update: Marker location is now roughly correct, based on old maps of the area as noted below in the comments.

Cheung Chau Police Station [1913- ]

Date Place completed: 
1913-01-01
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

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